Crystal Quest Processing Clone – v.000000001
My first game –> http://itp.nyu.edu/~db1060/cgd/class04/index.html
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Stop List – Stop Tokenizer – Google Patent
“Stopwords” are those words (and potentially phrases) that search engines and search parsers filter out from the query. In my own experience, we frequently refer to them a “noise”. Typical examples...
View ArticleNgram’s, Press Releases and the SEC
I tried a few different datasets to generate the text. The first was a set of press releases. The second was from filings made by companies with the Securities and Exchange Commission. press-releases...
View ArticleParts of Speech, Bayesian Analysis, Magic
Oh, spelling and grammar. My greatest educational and professional bane. My (close to) greatest source of embarrassment. Until roughly the late 19th century, spelling for most people, even the...
View ArticlePageRank and “the Market”
I had an argument once with a colleague about the quality writing and communication and the popularity of those communications. In short, my colleague argued that even if another colleague (a “coac” or...
View ArticleComputer Generated Suggestions – Ubiquitous, Annoying, Generally Worthless
Once I started really looking at this, I was utterly amazed at how it affects every aspect of our interaction with computers. And how it has become, in essence, more noise to be ignored than useful....
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Clusters and Medical Resources (and lawyers)
In working with clusters, I was reminded of the old statistics saw that “correlation does not necessitate causation” (or something to that effect). The point being, among other things, that just...
View ArticleAutonomous Weapons
This is my current proposed subject for my Future of Infrastructure research paper. A few links that I found particularly interesting: Recent Washington Post Article Paper from the Naval Warfare...
View ArticleHow We Decide
Jonah Lehrer’s “How We Decide” provides a very interesting take on the nature of designing interactions, interfaces and general usability. He provides a story about a weapons operator on the USS...
View ArticleThe Multiple Faces of Emotional Design
Donald A. Norman’s book, Emotional Design is a great read and one that everyone in design, interaction and technology should read. His chapter on “The Multiple Faces of Emotional Design” discusses the...
View ArticleNudge and Stupid Terminals
The question of providing people with enough information to make a “good” decision, without either (1) trivializing / 0ver-simplifying, or (2) overwhelming the audience is a fascinating one to me and a...
View ArticleTalk to Me
I was a little unpleasantly surprised by the MOMA exhibit “Talk to Me” — ALthough the pieces were generally good, in many respects, the entire point of the overall exhibit — interactivity as art,...
View ArticleAlgorithms Research Studio – Agent Based Modeling – Literature Review
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View ArticleSimuLaw Research
I had a call today with Dr. Michael North of the Argonne National Laboratory. Dr. North (Mike) is the lead developer of Repast Simphony and the Deputy Directory of the Center for Complex Adaptive Agent...
View ArticleSimuLaw – Progress Report & Schedule
During the last week I have been reviewing all the material I can find on modeling legal process using various simulation tools. There are a small handful of articles on using agents to simulate legal...
View ArticleSimuLaw – Progress Report – February 23
I am trying to integrate RePast Simphony with Processing to build some legal simulations that would be useful pedagogical tools for law students and non-lawyers. These would be sandbox-like simulations...
View ArticleSimuLaw – March 1 Update
I have been working regularly with Repast (repast.sourceforge.net) but I am continuing to have difficulties in using it in a “pure” Java mode. I was fortunate to be able to arrange a conference call...
View ArticleSimuLaw Update – March 19
Working in RePast has not been terribly complex so long as I stay in the built-in environment (something very similar to remaining strictly in Processing). However, once I try to move RePast fully into...
View ArticleSimuLaw – Paper Proposal
There have been a number of attempts to use artificial intelligence techniques in the legal realm. Traditionally, researchers have tried to model either statutory laws (e.g., an expert system that...
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