Gustavo Lacerda de Melo
Gustavo Lacerda

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Hello. I am a pre-doc (post-Masters) at CMU. My official title is "Visiting Researcher", although I've also been called "Research Assistant". Here is a recently-updated CV.

I spend 60% of my time as a programmer for the SimStudent project. The remainder of the time, I do research on causal graphical models with Peter Spirtes, and text learning with William Cohen; and try to learn Machine Learning.

I was previously a Master of Logic student in Amsterdam. My grades had high entropy. I came to CMU to redeem myself, by (constructively) proving to the world that I can do publishable research. :-) Thanks to the good supervision and research time, I submitted to UAI2008 as first author (accepted as a plenary talk and I already have a citation!).

Most of this site is more than 2 years old. As you can see below, I have had too many interests for my own good.


subblogs
Logic&Ed, on applying logic to education: argumentation, the role of logic in knowledge and understanding.
FormalMath, about computer formalizations of mathematics. I propose multiple evolving, parallel representations.
Evolution, where I review arguments and create formal models: causal, probabilistic, or simply logical arguments.
Practical Epistemology, on cognitive aids, betting markets, how to deal with expert opinions, biases, and rationality questions.

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biology cogsci
econ educ info.thry ling machine learning logic music phil.comp phil.math phil.sci proj_ideas  social_dynamics  ...more (all tags)




professional
academic
personal
misc
present & future
Projects

past
Software I've made
Personality & Beliefs
Rants & Dreams

Pictures

Hobbies: Music

Favorite Quotes
Press

ILLC Wiki, including a guide to life in Amsterdam

Links
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HIRE ME

"have laptop. will travel."

I am good at:
* analyzing mathematical problems, creating models, analyzing data, automating reasoning processes
* developing software: I specialize in mathematical algorithms. My style is to produce clean, elegant code.
* giving private lessons
* proof-reading, editing, translating (source languages: EN, PT, NL, FR, ES   target: EN, PT)


CV / Resume
See also my Writings and Publications


FRIEND ME



give me presents:
my Amazon.com wish list

I'm often looking for...
jamming partners: see Music
exercise partners: hiking, biking, folk dancing, football(soccer), and improvising new ball games. contact me

my open-data social networking page for Google to index, thus overcoming the branding problem [SocialGrid done right] (yet to come). social opportunities

my introduction page (yet to come...)

MeetUp replacements: elynx.nl  UpComing  MeetIn




this website is permanently under construction... I would like to hear your comments and criticisms, in order to improve it.
One day we will have indexing. For now, keyword searches will have to do. Too bad.

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