Final Year Project Proposal

I've just submitted my proposal for my final year computer science project, entitled:

Centralised and Individualised Machine Learning in a Multi-Agent Simulation

Sounds cool eh? You can read the detailed proposal here.

The above isn't too technical a document, but if you're just too lazy to read it, here's a quick overview:

I'm going to create a virtual world, and fill it with 'people' that are capable of interacting with the environment and one another. I'm then going to give these people one of twenty of so 'personalities' that I've defined, to give the world a bit more flavour and sense of reality. These are my 'dumb' people.

I'm then going to introduce some 'intelligent' people that will originally know nothing other than how things are currently going, and how they want them to go. They'll use reinforcement learning (a type of machine learning/artificial intelligence) to get from A to B. These guys will then interact with the dumb people as they see fit.

Finally, I'll have some kind of 'chief' person that all the intelligent people will report back to. It'll therefore be the most intelligent person in the virtual world, and will be able to give advice/issue instructions to the intelligent people.

Read the next paragraph

The example I gave in the document is a super intelligent police chief, controlling intelligent police officers, looking after a dumb populace - but I'm not definitely going to go with that. So, any other suggestions of scenarios that I can put my three types of people into would be Extremely Welcome. Seriously guys.

Also, any other feedback, experiences in this field, technical advice, or links to useful documents/books/resources/code would also be appreciated.

Xx

Adventuring

Drumming on Rock Band is a tiring ordeal, so Julie-oh and I decided to pop over to London yesterday for a fun day out. We started off in a psychadelic little square hidden away just off Covent Garden known as Neal's Yard.

Apparently very popular amongst the vegan community, Neal's Yard is precisely what would happen if a bunch of hippies got hold of the square Monty Python used to live on at the same time that Dulux were trying to shift some of their more unusual shades of paint. I'm told this is exactly the case.


_{Python's old house, and some of the hippy shops}

I was a fan of the unorthodox decor and atmosphere leant by the kind of people who sit around such decor, and surprisngly also of the food there, which was the reason we went. Julie-oh found lots of gluten-free goodness there to eat (pies, bread, lots more) and I'm sure she'll blog about that, but for now I'll just say that it was better than normal, fully glutenated food. Sweet.


<sub>The 'restaurant'


The deli serves meat based food too, if you don't mind a dirty look or two</sub>

We decided to pop over to Camden Town after this for some shopping, and across the way stumbled over some graffiti that Will had been showing us in a book just the night before. It's a piece by Banksy, drawn straight onto a standard brick wall. Apparently he'd painted it white the week before the actual drawing by dressing up as a workman and putting some signs up - smooth.


_{Masterful - click to embiggen}

In Camden I managed to add to my pretentious look by buying a great beret, along with some other tie-dye oddities, of the ilk normally found in Camden market stalls.


_{I think the sour look and neck-tie set it off well, if only I had a moustache...}

Finally, it was off to the Museum of London - one of the lesser known London museums, but still really cool. They had skeletons from 200,000BC found in what is now London, along with the usual (but well done) whipthrough of the evolution of man, from bits of stone through to rough axes through to sharp swords - all the ways of killing things you could want. Women, on the other hand, invented nice pottery in about 2,000BC and didn't move on much, from what I can see.

There's also a tacky piece around the Great Fire there (apparently it was quite hot) and a fairly interesting Roman section too. Worth a visit if you've done the other museums.