So, the idea is that what if we have a hierarchy where some of the agents in the hierarchy have multiple supperiors. Then the underlying gets tasks from both its superiors. How does it learn how much weight to put on each of the tasks. How does it know which to do first? I think… Continue reading Neural Nets and Agent Hierarchy
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blackhat
https://www.blackhat.com/us-14/archives.html#android-fakeid-vulnerability-walkthrough https://www.blackhat.com/us-14/archives.html#cloudbots-harvesting-crypto-coins-like-a-botnet-farmer https://www.blackhat.com/us-14/archives.html#hacking-the-wireless-world-with-software-defined-radio-2-0 https://www.blackhat.com/us-14/archives.html#miniaturization Some interesting blackhat talks.
Android exploits
I was just at a seminar on “Automated Detection and Mitigation of Inter-Application Security Vulnerabilities in Android”. Basically they told us that some Android apps even though they do not require permissions to access some info they acquire the info through the other apps on your phone. I just learned that millions of people have… Continue reading Android exploits
Gangs and the Future
Gangs are a nice emergent hierarchical multiagent system. They exhibit robustness, adaptability, high level of communication, vision (as in forethought and planning), and a strong level of cohesiveness given volatile settings. Of course all gangs and organized crime exhibit these features in varying levels, but they exist. The interesting thing is that they are fault… Continue reading Gangs and the Future
Machine Learning App
My brother got an internship as an accountant. One of his duties is a pricing things for the marketing department. Basically figure out how much all of the components cost and add in all the margins, expected demand etc. This takes about 3 days to put together a single price. This is crazy. It is… Continue reading Machine Learning App
Extract bib
http://www.molspaces.com/d_cb2bib-overview.php is a tool that will extract bib references from unformatted documents like email or webpages or pdf files. Which I could have used a couple of days ago when I did this manually.
Comparing clustering methods
So, I’m doing a pattern recognition project and I’m comparing different clustering techniques in R. I found http://www.r-bloggers.com/anova-and-tukeys-test-on-r/ has a nice intro on using ANOVA and Tukey. The method they show also includes a method for plotting the results (the confidence intervals)! So, thats nice.
youtube…
I wonder if anyone has created a youtube channel and created a bunch of user accounts that subscribed to that channel and had all of the fake accounts write comments etc. on all of the videos and have fake conversations. Would sort of be interesting if those that found it would join the conversations or… Continue reading youtube…
Multiagent Learning
So, I really want my PhD thesis topic to be on large scale (>8 agents) heterogeneous multi agent learning. The two problems in MAL are speed and generality. The main way I see solving the speed problem is by providing the learning agent information (or background knowledge or reasonable prior probabilities). This has been the… Continue reading Multiagent Learning
Adaptive Appartment
Totally awesome http://www.fastcoexist.com/3036734/this-micro-apartment-transforms-when-you-push-a-button-to-give-you-more-space. In some of my really old note books I drew and described my “dream” house with fold/slide/pop out furniture, games, beds, walls etc. I never thought of it actually being developed. Their target market is for apartments in cities with cramped living conditions. Which is perfect! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFq15IHQ1Uc — youtube video of a demo. One… Continue reading Adaptive Appartment