Bounty Hunting AAMAS

Bounty Hunting and Multiagent Task Allocation, a paper I co-authered with David and my Professor was accepted into AAMAS as a full paper!  This is the first paper I have published where I’m the first author and at a respected AI conference.  I’ll post a link to the full paper once everything is finalized.  Its… Continue reading Bounty Hunting AAMAS

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Thoughts on Humor

I wonder if humor is universal?  If all languages have a form of humor.  I know some languages only have rudimentary term for quantity or numbers.  So, do they have humor? Humor doesn’t seem like something that would need to be present in a language.  Programming languages certainly don’t.  However, you can’t have a conversation… Continue reading Thoughts on Humor

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Microgrid thoughts

There are numereous hurdles to get through before we start seeing microgrid electricity economies. The first which has already been dealt with by http://www.homerenergy.com is a microgrid simulator that simulates and suggests solutions to the first problem of determining number and type of alternative energy resources are needed for an area. Then we need to be able… Continue reading Microgrid thoughts

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Clash of Clans

David found a super bowl commercial on the Clash of Clans game I play: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC2qk2X3fKA To funny :).

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N-Queens

n-queens problem is a very interesting problem.  Especially when you start imagining more than 2 dimensions and start thinking d-dimensions it becomes an even more interesting and challenging combinatorics problem.  The link also points to some applications including traffic control, which makes sense.

Unix commands

Need to read this website http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/index.html.

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Chocolatey (package manager)

Chocolatey is a package manager for windows.  This is something that I think all windows users should consider getting.  Even if you don’t use the command line there is a GUI to interact with it https://chocolatey.org/packages/ChocolateyGUI.  You can add new packages to chocolatey.org and take advantage of their automatic packages to make it so if you update… Continue reading Chocolatey (package manager)

Quals

I passed both my Foundations and my AI qual.  I had to appeal for a rescore for my AI qual because the original grade showed that I failed.  Thankfully the regrade was accepted and I passed with the new score. Now I passed all 4 of my exams: Foundations, AI, Compilers and Software Construction.  I… Continue reading Quals

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Multi-team Systems

A multi team system consists of multiple teams where each team may have their own goals, but system in general has a common ultimate goal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiteam_system.  This is really interesting.  I think that this would be an interesting direction to move bounties. Also, on a different note, I think that a survey of this field would… Continue reading Multi-team Systems

QRE

Quantile Response Equilibrium http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantal_response_equilibrium a definition of equilibrium when the agents have bounded rationality.  I think that this has been the equilibrium definition that I have been looking for.

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