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french toast

Challah bread for french toast.  Should try and get some.

Decision Theory Paradoxes

I’ve been researching decision theory paradoxes because in my Bounty’s task allocation system I am considering the benefits of giving the bondsman the decision to allocate particular tasks through an auction (ie exclusive) or through its normal bounty (non-exclusive) method.  This brings with it a potentially multi-criteria decision which has me interested about the theoretical ramifications… Continue reading Decision Theory Paradoxes

Sublime Text 3

I got the sublime text editor (version 3).  I got it because I wanted something cool to develop in for python. Following this, I installed flake8 (however i don’t think I installed flake8 corectly…), and TrailingSpaces (which I adjusted my borrowed user prefs file accordingly). I also installed a lot of the things mentioned here. I… Continue reading Sublime Text 3

M*A*S*H

“Holy Toledo!  Either that bird hit a land mine or you just shot down a kamikaze pigeon!” — Klinger (M*A*S*H Season 8 Episode 12).  LOL Hilarious!! “The pentagon.  The weird looking building.  Four walls and a spare.  Monument to Murphy’s law.” — Cornel Potter (S8E13)

tv channel

The animation for the channel number on our tv (you know how when you change the channel it tells you what channel you are now on) changed today.  Made me wonder how that happens.  I thought that was defined by the tv… Strange.

Impossible Objects

Some interesting geometry, where either optical illusions or impossible shapes are created: http://www.asiapacific-mathnews.com/01/0101/0001_0005.pdf http://aitopics.org/sites/default/files/classic/Machine%20Intelligence%206/MI6-Ch19-Huffman.pdf Escher and Huffman http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~gershon/EscherForReal/ http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~gershon/BeyondEscherForReal/

Extract bib

http://www.molspaces.com/d_cb2bib-overview.php is a tool that will extract bib references from unformatted documents like email or webpages or pdf files.  Which I could have used a couple of days ago when I did this manually.

Third Year in Phd

http://chronicle.com/article/Your-Third-Year-in-a-PhD/143853/ advice for third year phd.  GMU emailed it to all cs phds. This semester I’m taking stochastic processes, pattern recognition and CS colloquium.

Bounty Brokers

Bounty Brokers exist in real life :).  They are the websites that profit from Like fiverr, the bounty is the service that the users on the site provide.  Of course the bounty hunter is looking to get the most out of its expense of doing the bounty (the analogy to robots is that robots do… Continue reading Bounty Brokers