I'm hoping some Friam member who knows a little about how an electric meter
works will be interested
enough to get this addressed BEFORE PNM spends $ 300+ million giving us all
new meters.
If interested I can send the full paper abstracted here:
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8077940
There
Discussions of curiosity are like discussions of side effects, spandrels, and the rest. The simple
conception of curiosity is information seeking to no purpose, no "instrumental benefit".
But that's clearly nonsense, barring some sophistry around "instrumental benefit".
Curiosity seems to me
With a robot using a generative model, one way a curiosity could manifest is in
how it learns from experience. With a somewhat higher sampling temperature,
the performance of a skill would vary. At a much higher temperature, the skill
would not be evident. If the skill had not been
The notion of search brings to mind two different experiences:
1- traditional "searching" of the library via the card catalog (yes, I know I
am old) for relevant inputs; and,
2- the "serendipity of the stacks"—simply looking around me at the books I
located via search type 1 to see what was in
It’s kind of fascinating.
I imagine that one of the next concepts to come into focus will be “curiosity”.
I remember a discussion years ago (15? 18?), I think involving David K., about
what the nature of “curiosity” is and what role it plays in learning.
Where the paper talks about
