I’m slipping behind on putting these up. I blame it on a broken laptop.
I didn’t really do too much today. Sure, there was the conference with some interesting talks. The first invited talk was an agent-based aiding of human teams. This talk had a naval bias to it and was mildly interesting. The next invited talk was from a Neu Yawka talking about Intelligent Social Network Modeling. The problem with modeling social networks is that they are stored linguistically, while computers represent things in logic and maths. His talk was focused on fuzzy mathematical and functional operators for bridging that gap. When it came to the questions though, he became a bit of a dick.
Another coffee break, then the first set of sessions. I spent a bit too much time talking to Bettina and co. during the break and arrived too late to absorb the content of the first talk of the session. The following talk seemed to be describing an optimisation algorithm which I may be able to try out. Many optimisation algorithms could be swapped for the cross-entropy approach in my work.
The rest of the day was fairly mundane. I had planned to go to two sessions in the last slot because the first finished early, but I decided against it. After taking the tram back to my hotel’s general area, I went to an internet cafe and took care of any pressing matters (like downloading Scribblenauts for DS) and uploading photos. I then spent the remainder of the day relaxing in the hotel (with a brief dinner at the pizza place).
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