October 11, 2005
Shall We Play a Game?
Newly-awareded Nobel Laureate Robert Aumann has written many papers. Of particular interest to readers of this blog might be his "Risk Aversion in the Talmud".
I read this paper a few years ago when looking for projects for an Evolutionary Computation class. I ended up creating a system that maximized visual acquity through user-guided selection, in an attempt to find support for a theory proposed by Dr. Shalom Kelman based on various halachos involving mixtures of objects of varying hues. But that's a horse of a different color.