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
Adaptive Appartment
Totally awesome http://www.fastcoexist.com/3036734/this-micro-apartment-transforms-when-you-push-a-button-to-give-you-more-space. In some of my really old note books I drew and described my “dream” house with fold/slide/pop out furniture, games, beds, walls etc. I never thought of it actually being developed. Their target market is for apartments in cities with cramped living conditions. Which is perfect! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFq15IHQ1Uc — youtube video of a demo. One… Continue reading Adaptive Appartment
more passwords
Another idea for an alternative password would be a picture based password. The idea is that the user uploads a bunch of images. Some might have faces and others might be scenes etc. The system would then ask the user to select like 5 of the images from the set of images. The user would… Continue reading more passwords
Biometrics and passwords
I’m taking pattern recognition. We had a discussion on biometrics and we came up with the idea of using the gyro info from a smart phone as a password. This would allow users to shake and move their phone in some pattern that would allow them to log into their system. I found this paper… Continue reading Biometrics and passwords
Prestige in Bounty hunting
What about prestige points. What if besides the bounty there was a fixed number of prestege points associated with . Sort of like going after a local town crook vs going after an international thief. This could be used to determine which tasks were available to the agent. The more prestege the harder the task… Continue reading Prestige in Bounty hunting
Afternoon in DC
I went DC with David today. Was fun. We went to this Vegetarian festival (VegFest). Was not as big as I thought it was going to be. They had a variety of vendors and you could watch a 4min video (about animal cruelty and benefits of being a vegetarian) and make a dollar. There was… Continue reading Afternoon in DC
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…
MAID
http://dags.stanford.edu/about.html has research in MAS they came up with multi-agent influence diagrams.
Fractal clustering project
I talked to Professor Dominicani and about the fractal clustering idea (thinking of making it or pattern recognition class) and she had great suggestions. She recommended http://snap.stanford.edu/data/ that has a bunch of graph datasets (like social networks and the like). Since such things tend to be self similar it would seem like a perfect use-case for… Continue reading Fractal clustering project