Author: Jay Scott
Date: 15:57:10 04/30/04
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On April 29, 2004 at 19:46:19, Steven Edwards wrote: >attacking the problem of uncertainty reduction can also >be used to attack the problem of time management. This is the basic idea of rational search, which is part of the field of limited rationality (see also "bounded optimality"), that is to say, decision-making in the face of limited computational resources, that is to say, nearly all decision-making. :-) I think it's an important research area. Also it's based on decision theory, and being theoretically well-founded is worth a lot of points in my book. :-) If you're not familiar with it, here are a couple starting points. 1. http://research.microsoft.com/~horvitz/bo.htm 2. I learned a lot from the 1991 book _Do the Right Thing_ by Russell and Wefald. The algorithms they examine are out of date now, but not the ideas. >it may be mid 2005 >before all of the primary goals are met. It's an ambitious project. If you can do it that fast, you are hot stuff! Do well, Jay
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