This year started off quite well: 1. My friend Indranil passed the CS quals 2. I became a Graduate Research Assistant (GRA) and got an early 2013 15″ macbook pro! 3. I might get to go to Brazil for Robocup (as long as we qualify) 4. I might get to go to Prague to present a… Continue reading January Summary Post
Category: thoughts
Control Theory
Should learn stochastic control theory because I think that some of their results may apply to multiagent learning. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic_control
Human Trafficking Simulation
Need a game that people play that simulates human trafficking without it actually being human trafficking (since that would just be wrong). It could be a MMO strategy game that requires the players to distribute mail in a war zone. So, you can choose to be the good guy, the mail distributor (which corresponds to… Continue reading Human Trafficking Simulation
Real life MAS
I was reading the article “The Science of Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect” http://tinyurl.com/m6keshp and I found the following quotes very interesting. We intuitively believe social and physical pain are radically different kinds of experiences, yet the way our brains treat them suggests that they are more similar than we imagine. Also, The neural basis… Continue reading Real life MAS
Voting and Auction based Monitors
Condition variables and monitors go hand in hand. There are various monitor protocols: Signal-and-Continue (SC), Signal-and-Urgent-Wait (SU), Signal-and-Exit, Urgent-Signal-and-Continue etc. Basically these protocols define what order threads get to enter, reenter, and exit methods in a monitor. They are defined by a first-come first-served (FCFS) queuing schemes to ensure their specific protocols are met. I… Continue reading Voting and Auction based Monitors
Year 2300
I was reading about chemical engineers and they seem pretty cool. They then made think about the matrix and other sci-fi type things where the user is transported to a different reality. Then I thought about LSD and how some drugs can produce hallucinations. So, my idea is that in the far future instead of… Continue reading Year 2300
Builder Broker
I would imagine that building a house from scratch is pretty difficult for the regular lay person. It would be for me. Making the blue prints, figuring out the permits, what contractors I need and when. Especially if I want to change something or money changes etc there are many dynamic unpredictable things that can… Continue reading Builder Broker
Prisons as multiagent systems
Wonder how prisoner transport routes are created and scheduled. Maybe the whole prison system could be a test bed for “smart cities”. They are just the controlled environment we need. Wonder how much tech is involved in prisons currently. Probably MAL could be applied somewhere. Might be an application area worth looking into. Maybe the… Continue reading Prisons as multiagent systems
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
Voting scheme
Voting scheme where you bid for votes. Very bad method…