7:00 – 4:00 ASRC

• Shimei and Wayne have responded to the Doodle that I sent out last night. No reading as a result.
• Need to write an abstract!
• Working through the TODOs
  • Working on confirming, avoiding and exploring section.
    • Wow. Need to take a look at this as an in-depth analysis of explorer patterns: Human-inspired algorithms for search A framework for human-machine multi-armed bandit problems. It’s Paul Reverdy’s Dissertation, and he’s done some followup work as well. Send him an email!
    • Looking through the above, found this reference: Should I stay or should I go? How the human brain manages the trade-off between exploitation and exploration. Downloading and reading.
    • And there’s this as well: Humans Use Directed and Random Exploration to Solve the Explore–Exploit Dilemma “We thus conclude that both information seeking and choice variability can be controlled and put to use in the service of exploration.” In other words, there is biological support for the belief that this can be designed for.
• Lunchtime ride thoughts
  • Social Trust is the prisoner’s dilemma. It depends on negotiation. The natural communication is stories. Behaviors are dominance, submission, rejection, etc…  God of stories
  • System Trust is the multi-armed bandit problem. It depends on navigation. The natural communication is diagrams and maps. Behaviors are explore/exploit
  • Collection Trust is about storage and access. It depends on counting The natural communication is lists and numbers. Behaviors are organizing, misplacing, loosing, hoarding, etc
  • Knowledge Dieties
• True to my word, I now have a WebExceptionHandler that launches stackoverflow.
• Need to register for EMNLP 2016. Early registration ends October 1.
• Reviewing Chapter2
• Reviewing Chapter 3
• Discussion with Aaron about building corpora
  • Build a LanguageModelNetworks browser using WebView. Backend connects to DB for clickstream logging, page storage, CSEs, etc.
    • Name/select the collection that’s being worked on
    • Enter the search term(s)
    • Results come back from the specified CSEs
    • When a page is found that looks good, add it to the collection
      • TF-IDF and centrality is calculated based on the updated corpus (tab for the current display that allows for manipulation). Top n words are made available for insertion into the search term
      • Tag the page with some kind of smart, integrated tagger?
    • Rinse, lather, repeat.