So, 2 ideas 1. use that ultrasound based display to act as a braille display, so blind people could use it as a way to read and interact with the device. Then the other idea is to have a smartphone app that converts pictures of braille into english alphabet words… I think computer vision would… Continue reading Braille with ultrasound
Category: thoughts
Ascending auctions and Bounties
So, what if we think of bounties as an ascending auction? The idea is that we have a bunch of tasks that we are auctioning off. Multiple agents can bid on a task (going after the task) at the same time. They win the auction by successfully completing the task. Like in bounties the price… Continue reading Ascending auctions and Bounties
Neural Nets and Agent Hierarchy
So, the idea is that what if we have a hierarchy where some of the agents in the hierarchy have multiple supperiors. Then the underlying gets tasks from both its superiors. How does it learn how much weight to put on each of the tasks. How does it know which to do first? I think… Continue reading Neural Nets and Agent Hierarchy
Android exploits
I was just at a seminar on “Automated Detection and Mitigation of Inter-Application Security Vulnerabilities in Android”. Basically they told us that some Android apps even though they do not require permissions to access some info they acquire the info through the other apps on your phone. I just learned that millions of people have… Continue reading Android exploits
Gangs and the Future
Gangs are a nice emergent hierarchical multiagent system. They exhibit robustness, adaptability, high level of communication, vision (as in forethought and planning), and a strong level of cohesiveness given volatile settings. Of course all gangs and organized crime exhibit these features in varying levels, but they exist. The interesting thing is that they are fault… Continue reading Gangs and the Future
youtube…
I wonder if anyone has created a youtube channel and created a bunch of user accounts that subscribed to that channel and had all of the fake accounts write comments etc. on all of the videos and have fake conversations. Would sort of be interesting if those that found it would join the conversations or… Continue reading youtube…
Multiagent Learning
So, I really want my PhD thesis topic to be on large scale (>8 agents) heterogeneous multi agent learning. The two problems in MAL are speed and generality. The main way I see solving the speed problem is by providing the learning agent information (or background knowledge or reasonable prior probabilities). This has been the… Continue reading Multiagent Learning
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…
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
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