NBBO is the composite best bid/ask nationally, across all of the exchanges.

It allows the average person on the street to get a price for the asset. The government system is actually SLOWER from the fastest exchange: you can know, within microseconds, the difference.

A very simple machine learning method.

For some input \(\qty (\hat{x}, \hat{y})\), find the closest training data point \(\qty (x_{i}, y_{i})\) and return its associated \(z_{i}\), with error \(\mid z_{i} - \hat{z}\mid\). Consider a Voronoi Diagram!

This surface is piecewise constant.

see also nearest neighbor method and data interpolation

Framework for subsurface exploration: a DARPA challenge that explores unknown underground environments.

Main Problem: there is a high degree of uncertainty that comes from multiple different systems interacting:

• sensing
• environment
• command execution
• communication
• mission state
• health of systems and subsystems

NeBula treats uncertainty between systems via a POMDP:

• construct a simulation of the tasks to coordinate robots
• solved using Double Progressive Widening

AISR NeBula

NeBula autonomy framework extrapolation on an active source seeking. For instance, combining with semantic understanding, we want to “find the red backpack”.

needfinding as a process of finding need.

needfinding with Rick Wallace

needfinding with Rick Wallace. You don’t find out what they need, but you find what they need and how to fix it. (duh?)

needfinding with Cynthia Lee

“Any time your curse, write down what just went wrong. How to fix it is the path to your next startup idea.”

monoculture workforce

People who do the above will… result in creating many products serving the segment of market matching software.