Xinyu Chen
About Me
I'm Xinyu Chen, a new graduate student here. I like logic and rule-processing so I think maybe these things are about artificial intelligence. Alife is a interesting area because 'life' is so abundant and everything seems to be 'alive'. No matter what it is, a particle, a molecule, a people or a society, etc. Even some non-material phenomena are like living things: a language, a custom, a trend of fashion, a religion…. Let's try to understand some of them and find out their U-curves.
What's New
12/08
12/03
11/24
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Model description graph

11/17
11/09
11/01
Talked with professor. I knew how incoherent my idea was. OH, Weak Claim is so difficult to implement!
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Thanks for Trent helped me out with the MFM2.0.10 and the swap thing!
Hutton's paper is really relevant with my cells. This paper exactly let me know how naive my idea is!
10/26
Made a
ppt version of William Grey Walter.
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10/23
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10/05
9/20
9/14
1T challenge:
1st attempt is a box-with holes. The box provide some shelter for fish. It works up to 40+K.

There are two big opens easy for fish/shark to enter the box;
Also two opens make it easy to come out of the box.
I hope this can create some pattern of rotation but it didn't.
More boxes can work better. They can separate the fish/shark, which will give the system more
robustness.
2nd attempt is a mixture of Dregs, sorters, fish and shark.

Dregs will try to keep the Occupied Site Density to about 35%. But fish/shark
outgrow Dreg's control
Sorters can separate fish/shark more randomly.
the 2nd method works better but it didn't survive more than 80K.
9/11
9/03
tried the shark game by add some walls and mazes. Thanks James!
Tried to leave tiny crevices on the walls so some luck fishes can escape.
Did not survive more than 12-13 K.
I wish I could manipulate the maze when sharks were surrounding fishes!
I need walking-walls! Someone talked about Movers but I can't remember who. Did Prof A mention it?
tried to put some Movers. They break down Walls and scatter them into many tiny walls. Chaos!
the ocean is filled with sh, fi, mv, and 'bricks'. It goes well to 120K.
When I tried to put these words here, sharks died out around between 130-140K. What happened to them?
9/01
struggling with MATLAB and math homeworks
got the notification from Dave
rushed here to fill up a slot
8/22