From: thunk <gmkoller@...>
Date: 2010-03-28T12:40:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Boid writeup idea

I have spent the last 4 years thinking about async distributed
systems.
I am not a AI researcher but I do work with statistical classifiers
for
computer vision.
This system sounds like an expert system that asserts things in a
distributed manner.

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this is for tonight - i need to get some actual walk'n done, my walk'n
to talk'n t ratio is getting wacked....

Yup!   Name a specific "working system" and these Boids will be
getting zinged all over the place.  take my domain, sorta, if I was
doing the critical drugs and working with the experts (that I think I
should be working with) then there would logically be a "central"
gathering place for all boids to be vetted.  for boids to be refitted
or maybe removed.  visualize the scene from star-wars where the little
fighter planes are being repaired and refitted to fight the evil
empire.  like that.

Then the regional hospital (i think) would have their patient records
- and I'd say that every medical record could be easily bombarded by
100,000 or so boids looking for ANYTHING THAT IS IMPORTANT - and that
could be as mundane as Bertha Schmitts turning 60 and overdue for some
review given some condition.  Like that.   tHAT would be, ahh mundane
but much more exciting things, I can guarantee you, would come out of
it because CHANGE is happening all over all the time and the Doctors
cannot possibly be expected to keep up with it.

Then there is the whole "official" lawyer/big pharm  list - that moves
at the speed of cold sludge - I'd suggest there should be a much
faster changing, more versatile, more safety based list that is
totally separate.  Multiple VIEWS are something sets of Boids could do
without working up a sweat by just changing the source info - the
hospital could decide to use both lists or one or the other depending
on their policies.

There are economics in this too.  Lots of money to be considered.  if
a drug falls off patent and there is a suitable generic at 25% the
cost - that has become available from a reputable vetted house  - who
informs whom when?   This is a really "automatic" kind of fall off a
log thing that Boids could do to save millions instead of just talking
about it.   maybe its being done somewhere, but i've seen zero sign of
it here.

again the first domain was conceived to be a shopping basket of
computer components at newegg/compusa type places.  what a cool time
to fire! a bunch of boids at something?   Right there before you agree
to pay for your parts, let a system of boids crawl over your parts and
see if they fit this way and that - did you remember the CPU heatsink
grease, are your cables long enough, are the fans adequate, are you
about to pay $300 for a case when there is a open box special on one
for $100 that is better - all time based things but the same 2000
boids could just get fired at every shopping basket.  if the guy is
buying 3 cpus and no motherboard then the system level guys need to
call off the swarms 'cause that not a "system".

Let me ramble on?  I'm doing "testing" or whatever you guys wanna call
it now by generating 1000's of simulated patient records in a "two
screen" system.  screens exist between the sender and the reader.
thinking of what goes into each screen is how things have to start.
It could be a potential investor + 100,000 different investment
opportunities - meat * potatoes stuff but the same boids just getting
re-used as you slap the investor into one screen, and the momentary
opportunities into the other over and over and over until something
comes out of it.  It could be short plays, take over possibilities on
a daily basis anything like that.  There's a lot of time value to
things like that and indeed I was trying to get MorningStar interested
in chatting about this stuff sometime back for education purposes.  I
had a system hooked up to a speech system so the market was being
announced to me like horse race - with this very pleasant female voice
- my momsie-in-law thought I was having too much fun, and she was
right.


and now back to work, time to get those ratios back in line.


thunk