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
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.
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
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
Bounties for Autonomous Traffic and Smart Grid
So, David reminded me of the problem of Coopetition and how that would be an issue with using bounties with the cars. Also, I love this problem (I’ve looked at it off and on since undergrad). Coopetition is basically the problem is how can competing teams learn to cooperate. So, here are my thoughts on… Continue reading Bounties for Autonomous Traffic and Smart Grid
Games
Would be interesting if console games included smartphone apps that had more game content to augment the game on the console. Like mini-games to get more gold/money/experience/characters/weapons etc to use in the console game. Also, by playing the real game different smartphone minigames could be played. To make money some of the games could offer… Continue reading Games
Accident Notification System
So, a friend of mine was just in a really bad car collision (not with another car thankfully). He was taken to a hospital and was unconscious and had fractured his skull. It took about 6 hours until his family was notified! It was on the website of our local newspaper like within the hour… Continue reading Accident Notification System
Decision Theory Paradox
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellsberg_paradox is a decision theory paradox. One solution to the paradox is to use this Choquet integral. I don’t have time to read about it right now, but it seems like something that would be interesting to observe in multi-agent learning algorithms. What decision do they learn to take, what would make them learn the Choquet… Continue reading Decision Theory Paradox
WP and Heroku
Might have to do this as I would like to be able to upgrade things more easily with WP and Heroku. http://wptavern.com/heroku-wp-a-template-for-installing-and-running-wordpress-on-heroku
Automatic feature and target selection
So, I think that I will need to augment how we make features, behaviors and targets in order to get the automatic feature selection (and now automatic target selection as well. I forgot about how features can take targets!). We need to annotate them. Otherwise, I think that we won’t be able to get a… Continue reading Automatic feature and target selection