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Paper – Flexibly Instructable Agents

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Today I read a paper titled “Flexibly Instructable Agents”

The abstract is:
This paper presents an approach to learning from situated, interactive tutorial instruction within an ongoing agent.

Tutorial instruction is a flexible (and thus powerful) paradigm for teaching tasks because it allows an instructor to communicate whatever types of knowledge an agent might need in whatever situations might arise.

To support this flexibility, however, the agent must be able to learn multiple kinds of knowledge from a broad range of instructional interactions.

Our approach, called situated explanation, achieves such learning through a combination of analytic and inductive techniques.

It combines a form of explanation-based learning that is situated for each instruction with a full suite of contextually guided responses to incomplete explanations.

The approach is implemented in an agent called Instructo-Soar that learns hierarchies of new tasks and other domain knowledge from interactive natural language instructions.

Instructo-Soar meets three key requirements of flexible instructability that distinguish it from previous systems: (1) it can take known or unknown commands at any instruction point; (2) it can handle instructions that apply to either its current situation or to a hypothetical situation specified in language (as in, for instance, conditional instructions); and (3) it can learn, from instructions, each class of knowledge it uses to perform tasks.

Studying – Massage therapy

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This month I am studying “Massage therapy – Shiatsu massage”

2nd month of 3 month class

Update: Building up strength in my hands. Not sure I want to continue practicing though.

Studying – Massage therapy

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This month I am studying “Massage therapy – Advanced massage”

This is months 5 month and 6 month of a part-time 6 month in-person class. I am attending two separate classes in parallel to increase my exposure and hands-on (no pun intended) experience.

Update: 18 people.

Studying – Massage therapy

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This month I am studying “Massage therapy – Advanced massage”

This is the 3rd month and 4th month of the advanced class.

24 people still going. Doubled up on the advanced class on the nights per week. Should finish in 4 months.

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