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)
 * Transportation
 * 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

Machine Learning
 * 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
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.