July 24, 2012

AAAI 2012 Paper: MCTS based on Simple Regret

Filed under: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science — dvd @ 12:01 am

Another poster in S5/HTML.

May 30, 2011

Poster for IJCAI-2011

Filed under: Computer Science — dvd @ 4:37 pm

I am having the pleasure of preparing a poster for IJCAI 2011, for the first time in my life. Both the IJCAI and a poster. Fiddling with PowerPoint or Illustrator is painful. Beautiful slides can be prepared with S5 using HTML and CSS; a poster in HTML and CSS is also worth a try.

Here is my HTML and CSS conference poster. Topics zoom in and out when you click on them. A PDF version for printing is also two clicks away in a decent web browser (that is, Mozilla Firefox).

I am less fearful of preparing conference posters now.

April 5, 2011

Modern archaic digital typography

Filed under: Computer Science — dvd @ 12:29 am

Modern scientific digital typography got stuck in a local maximum. LATEX — an archaic idiosyncratical tool — does everything wrong, even hyphenation and paragraph formatting. But this wrongdoing is so polished that cannot be improved. There will be no better LATEX until the ugly fashion for frozen fossils of scientific mind will pass away, and there will be no LATEX at all.

Hopefully soon.

C++ is so popular

Filed under: Computer Science — dvd @ 12:14 am

C++ is a zero-paradigm (be as tasteless as you like) specification-oriented (perfect for implementing faulty designs) programming language. Corporations love to hire C++ programmers, those guys do everything for money. I want mutuality from my languages, I write programs only with tools I love.

And get paid well.

May 25, 2010

Keeping simple is a robust optimization

Filed under: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science — dvd @ 2:59 pm

A good design is approximately optimal. When a reasonable probabilistic model is available, the design can be optimized in expectation: flight delays should be rare, e-mails should arrive within seconds, and buildings should protect from elements and provide comfort on most days of the year. But a single disaster can cause big trouble.

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December 23, 2009

Pure strategy for swine flu vaccination

Filed under: Computer Science, Game Theory — dvd @ 2:55 pm

Everyone should be vaccinated against swine flu, and the government funds the vaccination campaign. Should everyone be vaccinated against (more…)

October 31, 2009

Offtopia has been re-born

Filed under: Uncategorized — admin @ 7:41 pm

Offtopia has just been re-born as my professional blog. Other sorts of things are at davidashen.net.

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