Science.
I'm interested in problems on the boundary between
science and philosophy,
which have a chance of being solved in my expected lifetime, especially
Artificial Intelligence and
a physical Theory of Everything.
Math in its whole breadth
(statistics, numerics, algebra, ...)
has become my constant and cherished companion.
With computer graphics
one can convince oneself and others that math is beautiful indeed.
For details consult my projects, or
publications or
curriculum vitae.
Universal Artificial Intelligence.
You may be interested in my book, which presents sequential decision theory from a novel algorithmic information theory perspective.
While the former theory
is suited for active agents in known environments, the
latter is suited for passive prediction in unknown environments.
The book introduces these two well-known but very different ideas
and removes the limitations by unifying them to
an optimal reinforcement learning agent embedded in an
arbitrary unknown environment.
Calculators.
Computers of the old days and, especially programmable pocket calculators,
were not just mass-produced, noname PC compatibles like nowadays, but possessed
a personal character. You knew every bit by name,
you were proud of every single byte and tact cycle you optimized away,
and you got very exited when occasionally meeting someone who had the same/a compatible model.
You may enjoy browsing through my virtual exhibition of my old ``calcis''
and my program collection.
Puzzles & Games.
If you want to knock me out, just give me a puzzle and I won't
disturb you until I've solved it. Of course the puzzle should be
a challenge. It should be neither trivial nor solvable by brute
force combinatorics only. I got/want all games without a solution
and in decomposed/scrambled form. Some of them would be too easy
if one were to undo them carefully oneself.
The gallery contains some of my puzzles together with
solutions I found by myself (during boring school lessons) in case I bothered
writing them down.
Personal.
On my personal pages you can find a selection of photos of my
USA and my
Australia trips, each 5 weeks, 10000km by car,
my property on the moon,
what I think about the future,
some fun,
my curriculum vitae.
Feel free to contact me or write in my
guestbook.
Have fun - and - thanks for your feedback
Marcus Hutter
