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Looks like a neat meet-up/website. https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-love  

My original bounty hunting paper could actually be considered a market implementation of the Highest Response Ratio Next. $$\text{Priority}=\frac{\text{Waiting Time} + \text{Estimated Run Time}}{Estimated Run Time}$$ The bounty assigned to tasks is set to some base bounty $$B_0$$ and a bounty rate $latex r$ which in the first bounty hunting paper was set to 100… Continue reading Bounty Hunting as Highest Response Ratio Next

Oh yeah, blog, I totally forgot to mention, I PASSED MY COMPREHENSIVE EXAM AND DISSERTATION  PROPOSAL!!!!!!

So, I have been reading about the effectiveness of the current methods for determining the efficiency of fire stations.  Most fire stations look at efficiency by cutting there budgets.  Their argument is that basically lowering input (the budget) is not a good measure of efficiency.  They argue that you have to look at the value… Continue reading Speed, Resiliency, and Sustainability these are important to me

This is my last night as a bachelor!  Tomorrow I get married to Leslie Ann Brown (soon to be Wicke!).  This past week has gone by lightning fast.  We finished moving all of Leslie’s things and Casey and Louis and Audrey came from Germany.  Wow…  I am so excited!!!  I can’t even write in a… Continue reading Getting married tomorrow!

Interesting, I found someone talking about bounty hunting as a non-exclusive task allocation mechanism. http://forums.ltheory.com/viewtopic.php?t=2477&p=38248

So, many of the people at my robotics lab buy soda from the vending machine.  They just increased the price for a drink from 1.50 to 1.75!  That is paying 10.50 for a 6 pack!  So, we were saying we should just buy a bunch of soda when it goes on sale.  So, we of course could… Continue reading Coke Robot

Coordinating Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning with Limited Communication

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.