Jay Scott

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"Flamingos on the grass, my ass." -- what we'd get if we crossed Gertrude Stein with Donna Jo Napoli (old quotes)

I work at The Math Forum, which is part of Drexel University in Philadelphia.

self portrait, January 2000 ME

my big stuff

The Daily Whale Serious satire for thinking beings. I write a new item every day.

Poems My collected poems.

Machine Learning in Games A resource for artificial intelligence researchers and intrepid game programmers.

my little stuff

Lojban A sophisticated artificial language.

infrared photographs Five IR photos. Maybe someday I'll get around to showing off my ordinary pictures too.

SWAPA Extracts I know what happens when you put a mysterious acronym into a giant olive press and kick the on switch. You do not know. But you're still allowed to read the results. It's about thirty or forty pages of stuff I've written on a dozen or two topics.

Authorial Intent A poetry-writing program unlike any other.

Markybot Will extraterrestrial life be proved to exist? Nobody knows, but the Foresight Exchange "idea futures" market has some insight. I wrote Markybot, an autonomous FX trading robot, which competes against human traders for profits. Its trading model is out of date, and lately it has been slowly losing money.

Jay Scott <jay@satirist.org>
updated 10 July 2008