These are two pretty awesome companies/contractors. They provide muliagent systems approach to solving real world problems. They implement real time schedulers and optimization algorithms in the real world and not just as academics. Pretty cool, too bad they aren’t based in the US (though they do have a branch in Florida). http://www.knowledgegenesis.co.uk/home/what-we-do http://smartlogisticsinc.com/partnerships/ http://goaleurope.com/2012/02/10/russian-science-put-to-a-commercial-use-real-time-multi-agent-optimization-know-how/… Continue reading Smart Logistics and the Knowledge Genesis Group
Asian Food
I think I am going to try something at Bangkok Joe’s. Not the food the type of food I am used to, but maybe I will like it. http://www.bangkokjoes.com/
Marketing Apps
Twitter and Facebook seem like a great place to find potential user base for a new app. They both group people into such nice niche markets.
Generating human friendly plans?
How can plans that a computer is constantly changing be effectively and without disruption to the workflow be communicated? In a dynamic environment an online planning algorithm could be continuously improving plans. However, we humans are not that flexible. So, one way is to be able to set a threshold on how much the new plan… Continue reading Generating human friendly plans?
Tupper’s Self-referential formula
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupper’s_self-referential_formula Also, I think Godel might have some things like this…
Reverse Double Dutch Auction
Seems like an interesting idea for Courier World. Description of a Double Dutch Auction from (Introducing interaction-based auctions into a model agent-based e-commerce system—preliminary considerations): This auction is relatively counterintuitive and in its basic version works like this (based on [1]): a buyer price clock starts ticking at a very high price and continues downward.… Continue reading Reverse Double Dutch Auction
Using Twitter as a proxy for malicious intent
Today I went to a security talk and the speaker gave a demonstration of how when you tweet a link various “robots” will follow the link and index it and do other things. He gave a couple of example of what could be done. One example was tweeting links to login forms with valid user… Continue reading Using Twitter as a proxy for malicious intent
Regender websites
Interesting idea to regender text: http://regender.com/index.html. Maybe websites could use this based on a profile of the person that is entering their website to change the text they display.
http://www-math.bgsu.edu/z/carcosts/
A nice tool to plot how much you are spending on maintenance and repair of your car.
Car Maintenance
Since I am going to be buying a car I found a website that seems to have a lot of good info on how to keep your car in good shape DIY style. http://www.torquecars.com/articles/car-servicing.php