User:John b cassel

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I am a machine-learning and design research practioner interested in real-time discovery and planning problems involving severe risks with uncertain mitigation. You can read more about what I'm doing at my web page.

Currently, I work with Wolfram Alpha LLC. I am a charter Member of the Long Now Foundation

Subject Areas of Interest

Material Infrastructure

• Manufacturing Processes and Practices
• Supply-Chains (particularly closed loop supply chains)
• Transport
• Energy (though I don't know much about it)
• Agriculture (ditto)
• Intra-system interaction/materialist history

Institutional Infrastructure

• Insurance Regulation
• Disaster Law
• Intelligence Gathering and Institutional Skepticism

Risk Governance

• Stakeholder Discovery
• Ongoing Assessment
• Mitigation Technology development

Foresight

• Representation of Counterfactuals and Regret
• Scenario information systems
• Methodology (particularly psychological factors)

Design

• Parametric Design
• Design Space Discovery and Search
• Stakeholder Management systems/Multi-criteria analysis
• Domain-specific Languages
• Engineering Design Tools

Philosophy of Statistics

• Causality
• Non-parametric approaches
• Low sample statistics

Computer science

• Probabilistic programming languages
• Domain-specific Languages
• Simulation and concurrency

Psychology

• Developmental cognitive psychology (acquisition of causality and agents)
• Low-sample generalization
• cognitive biases

Maschinelles Lernen

• Reinforcement learning (neuro-dynamic programming)
• Graphical models
• Neural networks

Artificial Intelligence

• Representation of time and situation under uncertainty
• cognitive architectures
• knowledge representation of social science and law

Current Wikipedia Projects

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WikiProject Futures studies.

Editorial slant: interested in developing materials regarding foresight skepticism and methodology, including institutional systems for intelligence gathering and risk governance. There is a place for disparate views of the future within this project.

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