How can plans that a computer is constantly changing be effectively and without disruption to the workflow be communicated? In a dynamic environment an online planning algorithm could be continuously improving plans. However, we humans are not that flexible. So, one way is to be able to set a threshold on how much the new plan… Continue reading Generating human friendly plans?
Author: drew
Tupper’s Self-referential formula
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupper’s_self-referential_formula Also, I think Godel might have some things like this…
Reverse Double Dutch Auction
Seems like an interesting idea for Courier World. Description of a Double Dutch Auction from (Introducing interaction-based auctions into a model agent-based e-commerce system—preliminary considerations): This auction is relatively counterintuitive and in its basic version works like this (based on [1]): a buyer price clock starts ticking at a very high price and continues downward.… Continue reading Reverse Double Dutch Auction
Using Twitter as a proxy for malicious intent
Today I went to a security talk and the speaker gave a demonstration of how when you tweet a link various “robots” will follow the link and index it and do other things. He gave a couple of example of what could be done. One example was tweeting links to login forms with valid user… Continue reading Using Twitter as a proxy for malicious intent
Regender websites
Interesting idea to regender text: http://regender.com/index.html. Maybe websites could use this based on a profile of the person that is entering their website to change the text they display.
http://www-math.bgsu.edu/z/carcosts/
A nice tool to plot how much you are spending on maintenance and repair of your car.
Car Maintenance
Since I am going to be buying a car I found a website that seems to have a lot of good info on how to keep your car in good shape DIY style. http://www.torquecars.com/articles/car-servicing.php
Gene Patenting
Today, April 15 2013, Supreme Court will hold oral arguments on the following question: can one get a patent to gain the exclusive right to do research on specific genes that have been taken out of the body? Myriad Genetics, Inc., has obtained several federal patents on “isolated” forms of two genes. On the one hand,… Continue reading Gene Patenting
xkcd: Lisp
http://xkcd.com/224/
Voting scheme
Voting scheme where you bid for votes. Very bad method…