Really cool multiagent transportation simulator. Maybe I will be able to use this in the future. I want to scale multiagent learning to large number of agents. I also want to have autonomous vehicles. So, maybe I can simulate scenarios like finding a parking spot to meet someone, driving in traffic, cooperation between traffic signals and cars, the elimination… Continue reading MATSim
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Tracking Zombie Worms
I just read an article about whale falls. They say the only way to find them so far is basically by accident. They describe these zombie worms that have been so far found at the sites of these falls. Why don’t they inject something into the worms that is traceable and transferable to its offspring.… Continue reading Tracking Zombie Worms
Geotagging and Twitter
At Rochester http://www.cs.rochester.edu/~sadilek/research/ they have a cool web app that overlays tweets on google maps.
Determining Gender
In the paper Gender, Genre, and Writing Style in Formal Written Texts the authors determined the gender based on text. Looks like we are still interested in doing this sort of thing because it was done using twitter info http://www.fastcompany.com/1769217/you-cant-keep-your-secrets-twitter.
ScraperWiki
I found this cool service call ScraperWiki. It allows you to write python, ruby or php scraper as well as a view. You can make the data public so others can view or private. You can also make a view for your data! So I think this is awesome!!! I think for my Adv. AI class… Continue reading ScraperWiki
Code.org
My brother showed me this video. Pretty cool.
MGS Markov Game Simulator
I found a really cool paper that basically benchmarks a lot of MARL algorithms using MGS, a stochastic game simulator written in Java. This simulator is like my MALSIM except I only implemented features for repeated games not stochastic games.
Swarm of text
Can we use the Shapley idea to determine if there is a swarm on twitter based on tweets? A swarm could be thought as a lot of retweets or a tweet with similar words. We could find old tweet swarms characterize them and use them to predict whether certain tweets will become swarms. I think… Continue reading Swarm of text
Matt’s Blog
This seems like a useful and interesting blog. One of the entries gives a motivation for my continuing to write my blog.
Distributed 3d modeling using smartphones
You and your friends want to make a 3d model of something big!! Not just a toy or person. Rather your neighborhood or house. Something big. So the idea is to stitch together distributed 2d video to create a 3d model. You would use your smartphones that have gps, bluetooth, accelerometer, altitude data and compass. Send… Continue reading Distributed 3d modeling using smartphones