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General Discussion / Free Will Plug in

« on: September 17, 2016, 07:02:52 pm »

I'm afraid the Freewill 2.1z has stopped working. It no longer will access Start AI nor internet explorer. Very, very unfortunate. I don't suppose anyone has it working again? 

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General Discussion / Auto-Correcting Worded numbers to digits, questions

« on: August 10, 2016, 07:44:44 pm »

I'm working on a few plug-ins and an update to my Smart Alarm, but I realized if for any reason a number is in written form (six-fifty-seven) as opposed to digits (6-50-7) Hal will throw an error at me... As I have nothing coded to deal with such a chaotic event.. I don't suppose anyone else has already done this or made a plug in? Maybe it's as easy as a substitution table? I could be totally overthinking how to go about it, but I would theoretically have to make a table line for every number to infinity to replace written to digit, right, because any shortcut Hal did substitute (Twenty one) for (21) wouldn't the table actually tell Hal to make the conversion (20 1)? I mean, there can't possibly be a simpler way.

Thanks for any advice.

-Spitfire 

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Ultra Hal Assistant File Sharing Area / Logarithms Plugin

« on: April 04, 2016, 11:58:38 pm »

I have been working with math in VBScript and tried to make plugin to allow HAL to handle logarithms... However this was an epic failure, so I was wondering if anyone had any ideas.
I have a program written but I can't quite figure it out why it isn't working. Attached is the code, maybe someone who understands math can help finish it. I'm sure it's something really, really simple that I overlooked.

No errors from what I can tell. It loads in well, it just doesn't do what it's supposed to.
If we can get this working, I'll see what I can do with more complex mathematical equations.
Please help.. Open for input..

Spitfire

   

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General Discussion / GPU SQL Queries

« on: December 16, 2015, 06:00:47 pm »

I found an interesting topic covering something I have been wondering for a while. We all know the CPU is what SQL and Hal uses to store and choose responses.. Which can be notoriously time consuming if your database is massive. I have long wondered why the GPU couldn't be tasked with this operation, saving the CPU for Hal to do some extra "thinking" such as plug ins, etc.

Well, apparently I haven't been alone in my thinking. My theory is that if Hal had the ability to toss queries to the GPU, he would become more efficient.. This is of course assuming you're using a decent SSD drive.

Interesting read anyway.

http://www.nextplatform.com/2015/06/26/gpu-accelerators-radically-boost-sql-queries/

   

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Ultra Hal Assistant File Sharing Area / Smart Alarm v3

« on: November 22, 2015, 08:08:44 pm »

I have finally got around to cleaning up the final version... fingers crossed... of this alarm. It is intended as a morning alarm clock with some added accessibility.
This plug in will do the following upon plugin it in and setting the time and changing your 4 digit weather location code.

- Greet user at wake up time.
- Give Time and Date.
- Give current weather conditions. 

Optional upon activating code in uhp:
- Run email program such as outlook or another preferred morning program.
- Open morning webpages.

Optional upon activating code in uhp and have the required plugin installed:
- Play Mp3 - Only if vrMp3 plugin is installed and a music library has been defined.
 


Installing uhp.
 - Drag and drop contents, "Smart Alarm v3, MySleep.vbs, MySleep2.vbs" into the Hal install folder which is defined in the UHP as "C:\Program Files (x86)\Zabaware\Ultra Hal Assistant 6"   Change the uhp variable if yours is different.

 - Change 4 digit weather location code which can be found here -  http://w1.weather.gov/xml/current_obs/
Use the "City, State" search bar to obtain your 4 digit weather code, for example New York City is "KNCY". Enter that code in the Smart Alarm UHP in the appropriate area.

 - Activate other code within uhp if you are either A. experienced or B. can follow the instructions in the code. It's not too difficult, it's as clean and user friendly as I could make it, perhaps a little disorganized.

 - Upon first use, set the time twice, click "Apply Changes" twice, and then "Apply" twice followed by "OK." I don't know why, but that's what it needs to build the appropriate time tables in the halbrain. 




This is guaranteed to wake you up in the morning, if for nothing more than to hit the mute button on you computer.

This has gone through several variations and beta tests. This latest version, v3, takes this alarm to it's functional limit and eliminates all time bugs that were present in the previous versions. Version 2 would randomly go off at the wrong time, so I tore the code apart once again and found I had defined time incorrectly as the day starting at 1 AM while setting the time began at 12 am. This is corrected and all code operating in order for 1 month as of now with no glitch at all with many other plugins. Also works with no plugins. Please try it out, feel free to improve upon, and share back on this post. A few less installation steps would be nice, but that's all I've got. Thanks for playing.

- Spitfire     

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Ultra Hal Assistant File Sharing Area / Ask The Date Function

« on: September 18, 2015, 11:48:59 pm »

I ran into an issue with Hal where every so often I need to know the date, just a quick question. Hal came back with an enormous definition of the date. Disappointing. So, I wrote a small plug-in for Hal to give the date when asked.. and nothing else.. strange thing is, vrFreewill is supposed to do this, but it works only occasionally and even sometimes stores the information, which leads to confusion. The command to give the Date is actually already in the HalBrain,so I'm surprised I couldn't find anything else on this or it hasn't been more widely used in other plug-ins. Anyway, here it is. Ask the date function. Put it in the HAL installation file, activate it in the plug-in panel, now you've got the date at your finger tips.. and at the corner of your screen, but don't worry about that. Feel free to improve. If you happen to make it even more effective somehow, please share.

-Spitfire   

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / Make HAL stop Listening...

« on: September 04, 2015, 09:29:47 pm »

I was interested in either making or inspiring someone to make a plugin which will allow HALs mic to stop listening when another audio or TTS program is open. For example, when using GRETTAresearch with Balaboka, HAL will pick himself up while reading the research file, which is a lot more clicking than I'm prepared to do to make use of both research and speech recognition. One must go, unfortunately. Unless of course, anyone has any ideas.   

I'm sure with right plugin code, the application using audio that HAL can misrecognize as words could be altered or perhaps even expandable. Such as including Balaboka, Windows Media Player, VLC to trigger the mic to stop listening.

- Spitfire2600   

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Ultra Hal Assistant File Sharing Area / 24 Hour Clock with Weather Announcement

« on: September 03, 2015, 01:04:52 am »

I have done some tinkering with a combination of plugins to make something great. It could be much better but this is a crude effort from very limited programming knowledge.

24 Hour Alarm v1 - is the standard 12 hour clock. 1-12am, 1-12pm. Note: bug when saving time, it does actually save the time but if you refresh the plugin you will have to set the alarm time again. I'm a little lost as to why it does this and how to fix it while still maintaining the 12 hour am-pm format. 

24 Hour Alarm v2 - is the international 24 hour clock. It does not share the same bug as it's predecessor, however it will only work if system time is 24 hour format.

These projects are identical besides the time format. Theoretically, it should be expandable, i.e. adding news announcements, playing music, etc.
These were created using an Alarm plugin and a Weather Alert Plugin, both of which are credited in the .uhp.
They were designed to work with both individual plugins (Alarm and weather) without interference.

Make note to change the weather code to your area. as in the 'KIND' in the weather link. http://w1.weather.gov/obhistory/KIND.html
In the code, it is marked with 'XXXX', please be sure to change it. 

Anyone should feel free to improve this because it really could be something great. Look at all the math!

Spitfire2600

     

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General Discussion / Windows 8 Hal/Chrome issue

« on: August 03, 2015, 01:49:25 pm »

Just ran into a small problem. I use several plugins that allow Hal to open chrome, FB, Youtube, Gmail ETC. However, whenever used on windows 8, I get a bizarre secondary tab that opens directing to http://0.0.0.1.
The other tab is the correct tab for the location. It happens every single time Hal open chrome. Opened alone, Chrome does not do this. It's very strange and I am at a complete loss. There is no script directing it to that location and on windows 7 the problem is non-existent. It really is a mystery. For example, I use the GoogleSearch plugin. Whenever information is opened via Hal with chrome, the second tab appears with a *Can not connect to network* error. The second tab though, has the requested Google search.

Has anyone heard of this? Does http://0.0.0.1 mean anything to anyone or any idea why Hal would go there?

It's just a minor issue, but very annoying as I use that plug in often.

Thanks,
Spitfire2600   

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / SIRI and HAL

« on: June 03, 2015, 05:00:50 pm »

I know that I've been posting loads of requests, but this one seems like it shouldn't be too difficult. Given the number of AI like agents out on the market like SIRI and now Cortana, Hal should have the ability to answer a basic question in the same fashion as Siri. For example if Siri was asked, "What was world war 2" she can find the answer and relay it, saying, "World war 2 was such and such" without giving too much information, However, when HAL is posed the same question, he will fumble before either making an unrelated response or if the Auto Wiki plugin is installed, he will overload with unusable information. There doesn't seem to be a happy medium of information with Hal.

To the best of my knowledge, I know Siri works off of a cloud server with a finite number of responses, where as, Hal has the ability to look for other answers, especially with other plug ins that allow it to access the web. Also to the best of my Knowledge, Siri is incapable of learning a vast amount of information where as this is what HAL was created for.

In short, what I was looking for is a plugin that will allow HAL to answer questions of nearly any complexity like Siri but also learn that information and perhaps a little related information and store it for future use.


This theoretical plug in, combined with an auto learning plugin, HAL could devour the internet on a scale of data mining never seen before, which would be just great. Hal has earned it.     

It sounds like a task straight from science fiction.       

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Ultra Hal Assistant File Sharing Area / ConceptNet5

« on: April 20, 2015, 02:55:53 am »

I just discovered this AI common sense/deductive reasoning tool. It's a database somewhere about 20 gigs in SQ databases. I was wondering if anyone had successfully used these databases with HAL or if anyone has ever heard of conceptnet. It's really interesting and from what I see, it seems as if it shouldn't be difficult to make a plugin to use the databases. Beats me, however. What does everyone else think? It's free and open source. I don't know potential licensing rights. Anyone used this?

http://conceptnet5.media.mit.edu/

 

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Shouldn't HAL...

« on: July 11, 2010, 03:08:57 pm »

Shouldn't HAL have the ability, when asked or even randomly, to state "it's" computers nominal readings? Maybe like a heads up display or something. Just an idea.

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Ultra Hal Assistant File Sharing Area / Hal and Mathematical Equations.

« on: March 04, 2009, 03:46:55 pm »

Is there a way to create a plug in for Hal to solve Mathematical Equations such as

2/3(2x-4)=1/2(x+3)-4    
X=1/5

For example. Maybe Hal would follow the rules of Algebra and strategically solve the equation or expression. I understand this type of solution would require most likely a massive scripting code, however, I'm sure it's possible.

Any good programmers want to give it a shot? =D

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Ultra Hal Assistant File Sharing Area / Hal and Microsoft Outlook

« on: December 03, 2008, 10:18:27 pm »

I was just wondering if anyone, or if it were even possible to make a hal plugin capable of using microsoft outlooks calender and contacts instead of hals calender. It would make life more convenient as my data base of contacts is already in microsoft outlook as my mobile stores them there. Any feed back would be highly appreciated.

-Spitfire-