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by gradstudent 15y ago
Actually, I found the documentation reasonably poor. It does a good job of explaining the API but does little to provide a would-be user with any insights into why the search works, how it works or how efficient it is. It doesn't even discu
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by gradstudent 15y ago
Excuse me? The study of better heuristics to guide search is a very active area of AI research. See, for example, Sturtevant et al's 2009 work on True Distance Heuristics or their 2011 work on compressed heuristic functions presented at AAA
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by gradstudent 15y ago
There are about a zillion implementations of vanilla A* on the internet. What's particularly interesting about this one? Do you have some cool new heuristic function or some nice insight into how the search works? The as-is version is prett
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by gradstudent 16y ago
Perhaps things are different in the U.S. but here -- in Australia -- you can only be fired for breach of contract. If that didn't occur, as the blog post seems to suggest, then he was unfairly dismissed.
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by gradstudent 16y ago
You're splitting hairs. He was given permission to film the yellow badge people. On his lunch break. Using Google equipment. The latter two are the reasons given for his termination and not, as you imply, because he was "bothering people" o
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by gradstudent 16y ago
His importance to the Google machinery is irrelevant. According to the post, he was fired for using Google video equipment during working hours. Even though he'd been given explicit permission to do so. At worst he should have been given a
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by gradstudent 16y ago
No accusations were leveled and, as far as I can tell, at best, Google overreacted. To make an analogy: the guy points out the sky is blue and he's promptly fired. Wtf?
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by gradstudent 16y ago
You missed the point: the guy was fired for recording conversations with other employees. After being given permission from his supervisor to do exactly that. On his lunch break. Wtf is that all about?
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Dear Anonymous AAAI Reviewer
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