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Getting married tomorrow!

This is my last night as a bachelor!  Tomorrow I get married to Leslie Ann Brown (soon to be Wicke!).  This past week has gone by lightning fast.  We finished moving all of Leslie’s things and Casey and Louis and Audrey came from Germany.  Wow…  I am so excited!!!  I can’t even write in a coherent order.

So I’ll just list things:

  1. Brother, Stephen Emerick, Stephen Kuhl and Cameron Paterson took me to the Taste of DC Oct. 8th for a bachelor’s party :).  Was a very rainy day but fortunately for us the rain stopped and we were able to still do it.  It was great to see my brother and my friends before I’m married.
  2. I showed Audrey the robots at the lab and she likes them :).  I can’t wait to see her grow up and become a Godly young woman.
  3. I made breaded chicken breast in the wok!! They were delicious.

And so so so very much more I can’t remember right now.  I’m so tired.  I can’t wait for the wedding stuff to be done!

I love you Leslie <3

Coke Robot

So, many of the people at my robotics lab buy soda from the vending machine.  They just increased the price for a drink from 1.50 to 1.75!  That is paying 10.50 for a 6 pack!  So, we were saying we should just buy a bunch of soda when it goes on sale.  So, we of course could make our own dispensary.

Would be terribly fun to implement the bounty hunting task allocation for a Coke delivery robot on GMU’s campus.  So, instead of going to a vending machine you would order on your phone and it would bring you your coke product.  So you pay for the soda through the app and you get a qrcode that you then present to the robot and it will dispense the soda.  Then you could buy a coke for someone and they would just show the code.

Of course this could be done with a ton of things.  But since my campus only has coke product it would be really cool if we had this.  It would be a great research problem too.

Airbnb

Not that I would ever do this, but it seems like airbnb would be a good way to scope out places to rob.  You get a nice view of the interior and you get a nice timeline of when the owners are gone.

Decision Theory Paradoxes

I’ve been researching decision theory paradoxes because in my Bounty’s task allocation system I am considering the benefits of giving the bondsman the decision to allocate particular tasks through an auction (ie exclusive) or through its normal bounty (non-exclusive) method.  This brings with it a potentially multi-criteria decision which has me interested about the theoretical ramifications of such a decision.

In my search I have encountered quite a few paradoxes in decision theory, utility theory, and social choice (ie voting).  However, other than the wikipedia listing I haven’t found an authoritative reference (a book) on the subject!  I find this quite strange.  I know probably there are very few people that like this sort of thing, but I believe that knowing about them and that they exist might be of use to multiagent systems researchers who use such theories as the basis for their work.  So, if I can’t find a book or a survey paper on the subject I might write a paper on them.  That would be fun.  I would relate them all to problems in MAS and AI or computer science.  So, it would be Paradoxes that are relevant to an AI researcher.

Sublime Text 3

I got the sublime text editor (version 3).  I got it because I wanted something cool to develop in for python.

Following this, I installed flake8 (however i don’t think I installed flake8 corectly…), and TrailingSpaces (which I adjusted my borrowed user prefs file accordingly).

I also installed a lot of the things mentioned here. I got the python lang prefs.

Instead of Git I installed sublimeGit.

SublimeREPL installed need to configure.

Mecurial is installed.

May want to consider Javatar for java development.

M*A*S*H

“Holy Toledo!  Either that bird hit a land mine or you just shot down a kamikaze pigeon!” — Klinger (M*A*S*H Season 8 Episode 12).  LOL Hilarious!!

“The pentagon.  The weird looking building.  Four walls and a spare.  Monument to Murphy’s law.” — Cornel Potter (S8E13)