I have not been writing content on this blog for a long time. Partly because I have been busy with other stuff. Partly because I have been waiting for something really valuable to arrive t
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An Idea Log
I have not been writing content on this blog for a long time. Partly because I have been busy with other stuff. Partly because I have been waiting for something really valuable to arrive t
Read moreI finished reading the emotion machine at last today. I wrote a review of it on goodreads. You may kindly peruse the review here. The Emotion Machine: Commonsense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of
Read moreRecently we had an article about GELAB published in IEEE Access. This talks about all the fancy features of the toolbox as well as presents some results too. This is quite a bit of a
Read moreRecently we tried to estimate how much time it may consume to run GELAB in Matlab. There is this strong notion that Matlab would be much slower than C++ or Java. And it is true
Read moreRecently we worked together to analyse population diversity in a grammatical evolution environment. Our paper was published ina nice conference. You may want to have a look. Analysis of Diversity in Grammatical Evolution – IEEE
Read moreRecently I worked with a Masters student, who later became a good friend, on the idea of using computer vision techniques for bib number identification. The problem domain was marathon runners. He is fond of
Read moreRecently a student of mine worked on automated workload forecasting in a call center. The idea was to match a caller or a client to the right person with the right skillset to sort out
Read moreWe did some work in the past to devise technical trading rules for Pakistan stock exchange. This time we did a similar type of work using genetic programming. I hope that you like our work.
Read moreRecently a student of mine developed a system to predict stock prices of cryptocurrencies. His work has been published as a book chapter in Springer’s prestigious lecture notes on computer science. You might want to
Read moreBlizzard was released recently. This was the start of the second verion of GELAB. A major highlight of Blizzard is that it is capable of doing hybrid optimization. Now we have a publication about the
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