James Owen's Blog (6)

Greetings: Daniel Selman was the third to solve and first to post to ORF 2009 a solution to Einstein's Puzzle for ORF 2009. He did it using ILOG's Optimization software (and some help from some friends) and I'm sure Albert would not have approved. the first two entries (NOT programmers) solved it in 20 minutes with only paper and pencil. I'll show those later two later. Right now, ILOG's solution is at https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9200699377431147545&postID=868854362016637629 bu… Continue

Greetings: See http://javarules.blogspot.com/2009/02/new-algorithm-from-dr-forgy.html for the write up on the new algorithm from Dr. Forgy to replace the Rete 2 / Rete III algorithm. Also, we will have a new benchmark just to test that one and others, the WaltzDB-200 later this year. Enjoy... SDG jco Continue

Greetings: With the collaboration of three most excellent colleagues I have returned to the world of Quantitative Analysis and Forecasting. Finally!! Monica Adya was kind enough to send me the 1992 code that she did for seminal work that was co-authored by Fred Collopy and J. Scott Armstrong in 1992. It's all in C++ but I hope to begin by transferring to a combination of either Drools (or JRules or Advisor or OPS or JessJ or whatever) and Java. Or, perhaps, just leave the processing in C++ and… Continue

Greetings: See http://javarules.blogspot.com/2009/02/4-cpu-laptop-and-32-gig-thumb-drive.html for a writeup on the HP 4-CPU laptop at Fry's for only $1,699. SDG jco Continue

Greetings: We have nine "members" from outside the USA, but only eight total countries counting the USA. The count from outside the USA is as follows: 1 Aussie 1 Belgium 2 Germany 1 France (UK escapee) 1 Mexico 1 Sweden 2 UK :-) Regardless, this is almost as many different countries as we had at ORF 2008. Which is not surprising since most came from ORF 2008 mailing list. Now, what we need is some "new blood" from folks who did NOT attend ORF 2008 so why not invite your friends and working c… Continue

Greetings: AA is off to a screaming good start - congratulations to Rolando Hernandez for NOT following the lead of so many blogs by making it the sameo-sameo kind of blog but more of a all-things-to-all-people kind of blogosphere where everyone can be involved. One thing bothered me about the blog and I'm hoping that Rolando can fix this one: When signing up you HAVE to assign yourself a level of expertise or the system assigns you as a Novice. While I would hope that I'm not a novice, I feel… Continue