Tuesday, February 1, 2022

Behavior Trees

One of the things A.s.a. H. does is learn behavior trees. It was designed to, among other things, learn hierarchically structured "sequences of sequences."*

* R. Jones, A hierarchical architecture for software agents, Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3, 14 November 2003, http://groups.google.com/group/sci.cognitive and Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science, vol. 109, no. 3/4, pg. 159, 2006. 

Physics major at ESU

 In my blog of 1 September 2021 I mentioned that the university administration was proposing that we retire the physics major. They claimed that physics was running at an annual loss of about $88,000.00. Several of us disputed that. Among other things they had omitted our Space Science course in their calculation. I'm told a recalculation now says we are delivering a small net profit of about $7000.00 each year.  (And ESU is not a for profit school.)