About Me
I’m a Software Architect at Infinio, a startup I joined in March 2012. I have also worked at Endeca on the core algorithms for their search engine, been the Artificial Intelligence Lead at Rockstar Games New England, and worked at Panjiva, ITA Software and Icosystem. Before that I was a Postdoctoral Associate at MIT, first at the Artificial Intelligence Lab, then at the Media Lab. And before that I was a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute.
I was part of The Centre for Metahuman Exploration
I founded and led Esc, a virtual 3D nightclub
The Journal of my road trip across America
You’ll need Acrobat ReaderI co-founded Grey Thumb, an artificial life interest group
How to communicate with an alien race
I (might have) met Roger Waters
I was a programmer on Star Trek: Armada
Calculating Pi in a video game
I sang in the band “Booty Resonant Frequency.”
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Models break down when you exploit them
Models break down when you exploit them. Examples: “Number of lines of debugged code” is a good measure of programmer productivity, until you tie programmer reward to it. The programmers write very verbose code. Stock price is a good measure … Continue reading
Philosophy of AI
A while ago I gave a talk at the “Dangerous Ideas Seminar” at MIT’s AI Laboratory. It was called “Breaking Out of the Black Box.” It was about how people tend to create systems out of black boxes, yet systems … Continue reading
Many Smaller Error Measures Better Than A Single Overall Measure
Eric Bonabeau pointed me to an interesting article on calibrating dynamic models: “Model calibration as a testing strategy for system dynamics models” by Rogelio Oliva in the European Journal of Operational Research (v. 151, 2003, pp. 552-568). In it, he … Continue reading
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