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

This user is a member of
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.