I made a php app to automate the task of creating group projects on xp-dev. As a GTA for CS321, I had to create 70 accounts, around 16 projects and then add the students to their project! That is a lot of clicking if you do it manually. So, I made a php web app… Continue reading Xp-Dev web app
New Theme
I really am liking this new theme. The text is easier to read and I like being able to choose the background. The background used to be my wallpaper for my computer. It seemed to go with the tech feel.
Book idea
I was thinking it would be fun to read about a world where our concept of prison is the natural state of the denizens. Then for punishment (rather than jail) they are given full freedom. Would be interesting to read an authors rendition of such a state. Sounds like it would be a classic. Going… Continue reading Book idea
Summer Internship
Over break I applied to pretty many internships. Hopefully I can get one :). I applied to OPower AddThis Boeing Decisive Analytics GAO Near Infinity IDA CGI All of these companies are doing something I am interested in and would allow me to stay in Fairfax.
Co-Opetition!
I finally found the name that describes what I wanted to know if agents could do back in 2010!!!! My original question was: I was wondering: if multiple cooperative agent teams are competing, could they learn when it would be in their best interest to cooperate with a competitor. Now I know I was really… Continue reading Co-Opetition!
A stroke of genius: striving for greatness in all you do (R.W. Hamming)
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~hzhang/Hamming.GoodScience Found this interesting.
Thoughts on old research question
Back in undergrad (July 2010!) my professor, Dr. Babcock, posed the following question in order to help expand my narrow focus: The really interesting question is how does making the individual rules more complex affect the aggregate behavior patterns (or does the society no longer have patterns). As I am studying MAL, swarms and emergence I am… Continue reading Thoughts on old research question
Some swarm thoughts
UPenn researchers have collected examples of swarms or group behaviors found in nature. More than half of the papers describing the collective behavior of swarms exhibited coordination. The cool thing was that they found that coordination behavior is present from killer whales to cancer cell populations! It definitely seems that the ideas of coordination and cooperation are… Continue reading Some swarm thoughts
Characterization of the Culture of Swarms
One of my goals over the winter break was to determine a good paper idea that had a lot of math and that would move the field of large multiagent learning systems forward. Our contributions would be: 1. Alternative shapley value formula for swarms 2. Integration of the swarm value with k-order additive fuzzy measure… Continue reading Characterization of the Culture of Swarms
Trying a new theme
See how I like this new theme called responsive. I think I will like it better because it is wider. However, I switched back to the grunge wall because it was taking too long to set up…