So, as a young person in the 90’s (and of course earlier) we didn’t photograph and video everything with everyone, everywhere at anytime. We would just remember the events, forget them, or be reminded by others about them. Currently we can and most do take pictures and video and share with everyone about pretty much… Continue reading Change
Author: drew
MAS applications
I found this journal Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems and their list of publications and conference proceedings here. They look like a very neat conference. I took a look at their most recent proceedings and found to my delight that they have some cool applications that I’m interested in and make me think that some… Continue reading MAS applications
Windows and light
So, I was just reading a Fast CoDesign article about a new product that is essentially a moving mirror that tracks the sun to redirect the light to dark places in a room. This seems brilliant (haha pun intended). This made me think that instead of needing this thing in the room wouldn’t it be better if… Continue reading Windows and light
Extreme Sports, Baby Cribs and Pipes
In the future we will have new extreme sports. We are already sort of seeing it with that person that did a jump from close to outer space. We will start to have ziplines that you can ride from the moon to the earth. We will surf/swim on the lakes of lava on the sun! We… Continue reading Extreme Sports, Baby Cribs and Pipes
GMU MAS/MRS reading group
I think I should start a MAS/MRS reading group. CMU had/has a nice website detailing their MAS/MRS reading group. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mberna/mrrg/ It looks like it would have been really fun to have gone to those. So, might as well have it at GMU!
Airbnb
Not that I would ever do this, but it seems like airbnb would be a good way to scope out places to rob. You get a nice view of the interior and you get a nice timeline of when the owners are gone.
Adaptive Data Analysis
Google Research recently wrote a piece The reusable holdout: Preserving validity in adaptive data analysis (so I’m not go to write much). It details the problem with statistics generated when the machine learning methods are adapted to the data through data analysis and repeated trials on the same hold out data. This is a problem that is… Continue reading Adaptive Data Analysis
Directed Reading
I’m planning my directed reading class this coming semester. So, basically I have/get to come up with an entire semester’s worth of material. I might be able to make a class out of it by the time I’m done 🙂 haha. My subjects are focusing on the areas I want to explore with the bounty hunting… Continue reading Directed Reading
Paper citations
I wonder why we only count the number of citations our papers get. We should also count the citations of all of the papers that cite you, since they were somehow related. Maybe as the degree of separation increases the weight of each citation in that layer changes. Would be interesting. Also, maybe included in… Continue reading Paper citations
Petri net ideas and Bounty Hunting
I had a rather random idea. Music seems like it could be modeled by a petri net. A petri net can model distributed systems, such as the instruments in a band, mathematically. I googled it and it seems like that I’m not the first to think of this. I think one of the first papers to… Continue reading Petri net ideas and Bounty Hunting