Too Busy to Pick Up the Phone

Too Busy to Learn

The goal of this research is to analyze how individual learning interacts with an evolutionary algorithm in its search for best candidates for the Busy Beaver problem. To study this interaction two learning models, implemented as local search procedures, are proposed. Experimental results show that, in highly irregular and prone to premature convergence search spaces, local search methods are n...

Too busy to relax?

Today I am going to exercise. Finally! I plan to leave my offi ce early and go to the gym on my way home. I just need to complete a few telephone calls and I will be on my way. Suddenly, the emergency department calls. Mrs S. is back with congestive heart failure and will likely need admission. There goes my new resolution. By the time I leave the emergency department, it is time to go home, ha...

Are we too busy to be happy?

Learning To Pick Up a Novel Object

1. Abstract In order for an autonomous robot to successfully function in a natural environment it needs to be able to able to interact with objects it has never seen before. Specifically it needs to be able to manipulate objects in the environment that it has no prior knowledge of. The robot must not only be able to cope with uncertainty in the shape of the object, but also with uncertainty in ...

Pick up sticks

Break a ruler of length n inches with indentations at each inchmark into n sticks of length one by repeatedly picking up all the fragments which are still of length greater than one and throwing them down all at once until all the sticks are of length one. Assume that each stick breaks into exactly two sticks uniformly at the inchmarks. What is the expected number of throws needed to complete t...