Another idea for an alternative password would be a picture based password. The idea is that the user uploads a bunch of images. Some might have faces and others might be scenes etc. The system would then ask the user to select like 5 of the images from the set of images. The user would… Continue reading more passwords
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Biometrics and passwords
I’m taking pattern recognition. We had a discussion on biometrics and we came up with the idea of using the gyro info from a smart phone as a password. This would allow users to shake and move their phone in some pattern that would allow them to log into their system. I found this paper… Continue reading Biometrics and passwords
Prestige in Bounty hunting
What about prestige points. What if besides the bounty there was a fixed number of prestege points associated with . Sort of like going after a local town crook vs going after an international thief. This could be used to determine which tasks were available to the agent. The more prestege the harder the task… Continue reading Prestige in Bounty hunting
Afternoon in DC
I went DC with David today. Was fun. We went to this Vegetarian festival (VegFest). Was not as big as I thought it was going to be. They had a variety of vendors and you could watch a 4min video (about animal cruelty and benefits of being a vegetarian) and make a dollar. There was… Continue reading Afternoon in DC
Fractals in Fractals
Fractals within fractals is a fractal? If we embed a Sierpinski triangle into the Mandelbrot set do we have a fractal? How is that done? Crazy…
MAID
http://dags.stanford.edu/about.html has research in MAS they came up with multi-agent influence diagrams.
Fractal clustering project
I talked to Professor Dominicani and about the fractal clustering idea (thinking of making it or pattern recognition class) and she had great suggestions. She recommended http://snap.stanford.edu/data/ that has a bunch of graph datasets (like social networks and the like). Since such things tend to be self similar it would seem like a perfect use-case for… Continue reading Fractal clustering project
Game idea and Engineer
App idea would be a game that game you a loop of string (no breaks) and the goal would be to create a given knot. Also, I was thinking about the definition of engineer. By its definition it includes some things that I think like artists, which to us aren’t engineers. I was wondering if… Continue reading Game idea and Engineer
Third Year in Phd
http://chronicle.com/article/Your-Third-Year-in-a-PhD/143853/ advice for third year phd. GMU emailed it to all cs phds. This semester I’m taking stochastic processes, pattern recognition and CS colloquium.
Neural net follow up
Well a follow up on the neural net idea. I was thinking that maybe it would be useful as a means of representing a dimension of time. HyperNEAT’s network takes structure and location into account. I think that by staggering input nodes, ordering them would be adding the concept of time to how the inputs… Continue reading Neural net follow up