====== Ezra Stallings ======

I'm an undergrad in Computer Science here at UNM, planning on working on entertainment software in some way, shape, or form after graduating. Artificial life is interesting to me from a number of different angles, primarily the aesthetics of a-life systems, but also the robust computation aspects, as well as the slightly esoteric, ultimately irrelevant "is it life?" philosophical debate.

More of an implementation oriented person than a science-y one, but not exclusively so.

I worked on [[http://playsiphon.com|Siphon (IFDM)]], [[http://automatongame.com|Automaton]] and [[http://polyomin.org|Polyomino (In-Progress)]].

//I have a saved, exported VirtualBox image of Linux Mint with the MFM installed if anyone wants it//


====== Project: Pathfinding in the MFM ======

[[papers:ezra_stallings | Link to wiki page]]
[[https://www.dropbox.com/s/vp62ucfoj9it7ph/Ezra_Stallings_491.zip?dl=0|Dropbox download for all project files, incl. scripts, data, paper, and graphs]]

====== Researcher Presentation: Takashi Ikegami ======

{{:people:takashi_ikegami_presentation.pptx|}}
{{:people:takashi_ikegami_presentation.pdf|}}

===== News =====

===9/14/14===
    * Made presentation for crit 1
    * [[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1261641/Robust%20Asynchronous%20Warfare.pdf | Link]]

===9/13/14===
    * Worked with Trent in lab on my project; got a couple of elements partly implemented.
    * The MFM has a beast of a codebase.

===9/11/14===
    * Refined my project idea and made -the plunge- to do something different than what I had originally planned.

===9/10/14===
    * Got to 190+ kAEPS with the latest shark week challenge before MFMS crashed.
    * Lab machines can't encode what I had so far as video (no libx264)
    * Here's some screenshots: [[http://imgur.com/a/a0JaN|Imgur]]

===9/3/14===
    * Got to 3,373 kAEPS when I entered the lab this morning
    * {{:people:screenshot_from_2014-09-03_11_30_37.png?200|}}

===9/2/14===
    * Luke and I played with different types of elements for the shark week challenge 2.
    * Beat 80kAEPS with unmodified fish/sharks. Got to 400kAEPS when I left the lab

===9/1/14===
    * Worked on shark week challenge 2 in lab. Results so far are... unpromising
    * Difficulty compounded by screwed up screen resolution on lab computers. Can't see both board-fill statistics and speed statistics. Can't fix it in system settings. [03-Sep-2014 03:56:01AM-0600 Dave: Post a screenshot of the issue?] 

===8/27/14===
    * Worked on shark week challenge 2 in lab with Chris. Unable to get past 80 kAEPS

===8/26/14===
   * Worked on shark week challenge 2 in lab. No dice.

===8/21/14===
    * People page created
    * Got MFM running on Debian Mint inside VirtualBox
    * But God, is it ever slow