Robust-first Computing Wiki

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ackley@undisclosed.example.com (ackley) — Sat, 28 Nov 2020 23:29:54 +0000

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  ===== Quick links =====
-   * [[f17:class_notes|Class notes]]
-   * [[http://www.cs.unm.edu/~ackley/591/|Class web page]]
    * [[https://github.com/elenasa/ULAM/wiki|Programming language ulam wiki and reference manual]]
    * [[Introduction:Robust-first computing]]
    * [[Introduction:Indefinite scalability]]
    * [[Introduction:How can I install the MFM software?]] 
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    * [[Introduction:Where can I get more information?]]
    * [[Introduction:MFM usage and tips]]
    * [[Introduction:Making an MFM video]]
    * [[Introduction:Contributions]]
+   * [[f17:class_notes|Class notes]]
+   * [[http://www.cs.unm.edu/~ackley/591/|Class web page]]
  
  ===== News =====
+   * 28-Nov-2020: After an extended outage since August, robust.cs.unm.edu is back on the air! 
    * 18-Oct-2019: The [[https://youtube.com/c/TheT2TileProject|T2sday Updates]] are now in their second year!  Also, most project discussion takes place in [[https://gitter.im/t2tile/Lobby|the T2 Tile chat rooms]].
    * 25-Nov-2018: There's now a [[https://youtube.com/c/TheT2TileProject|weekly video report]] on progress building the 'T2 Tile', our prototype indefinitely-scalable hardware!
    * 3-Oct-2017: ULAM v3.0.9 released.  Bug fixes and more development towards hardware tiles.
    * 26-Sep-2017: ULAM v3.0.8 released.  Bug fixes mostly.
    * 21-Aug-2017: //[[http://www.cs.unm.edu/~ackley/591|Living Computation]]//, a UNM CS seminar for graduates and undergraduates, starts today, focusing on **ulam** and the Movable Feast!
    * 8-Aug-2017: **ULAM v3** Ubuntu packages now available via [[https://launchpad.net/~ackley/+archive/ubuntu/mfm|ppa:ackley/mfm]].  Built for xenial, trusty, and precise, for i686, x86-64, and now also arm7hf.
    * 15-Jul-2017: **ULAM v3 coming in August!**
    * 8-Aug-2016: **ULAM v2 announced!** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZJ7UUt8B2Q|Video]]! 
-   * 25-Jul-2015: The **[[http://mail.cs.unm.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ulam-users|ulam-users mailing list]]** is now available.  Intended for ULAM-related announcements, general discussion, and community support.
-   * 25-Jul-2015: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aR7o8GPgSLk|Video]] of the **ULAM launch** talk in York, UK is now online.
-   * 26-May-2015: Building up towards the **launch of ULAMv1 and MFMv3 at ECAL 2015** this summer!  New pages coming fast now, including [[dev:program_ulam|a tutorial on ULAM programming]] and [[ulam_programming_conventions|early info on ULAM programming conventions]]
+ 
  
  [[news_archive|Older news items]]
  ===== Components =====
    * [[Components:Element]]

joby_elliott - Thought I'd go ahead and add my paper from last year's class

jelliott@undisclosed.example.com (jelliott) — Thu, 29 Nov 2018 22:33:26 +0000

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  I work as a web developer now, and that's really how I wound up interested in how to build distributed things. The internet is big and people interacting with it is extremely asynchronous. It behooves the web development community to think hard on how to make things robust.
  
    * [[people:joby_elliott:project|Project Ideas]]
    * [[people:joby_elliott:log|Work Log]]
+   * {{:people:joby_elliott:scaleless_pathfinding_with_robust-first_minimum_spanning_trees.pdf|Scaleless pathfinding with robust-first minimum spanning trees}}
  
  ===== Ulam Public Key =====
  <file pub Joby Elliott.pub>
  [MFM-Handle:Joby Elliott]
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  Now, once you have the 2017 Fall Creators Update, you just go into Windows features, turn on Windows Subsystem for Linux, and install Ubuntu from the store.
  
  Then you can install Xming in Windows, set DISPLAY=:0 in both your .profile and .bashrc, and even GUI programs will work. You could probably even build xlaunch files to make shortcuts in Windows that launch Ubuntu apps through Xming. I've never tried though.
  
- WSL will mount your Windows files in /mnt, organized by drive letter. One annoying thing is that it will only mount physical drives that are NTFS.
+ WSL will mount your Windows files in /mnt, organized by drive letter. If you want to mount network drives or other sorts, you have to add them to fstab yourself, like:
+ 
+ <file>
+ //server/share \mnt\xyz drvfs defaults 0 0
+ </file>
+ 
+ One handy thing is that since Windows is handling the underlying requests, it lets you mount things Windows knows the credentials for without having to duplicate the credentials in Ubuntu.

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ben_matthews

bmatthews1@undisclosed.example.com (bmatthews1) — Wed, 20 Dec 2017 04:26:55 +0000

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  ----
  ====== Ben Matthews ======
  I am a third year computer science student at the University of new Mexico. I work primarily on visual and graphical projects some of which can be found on my website: [[http://www.unm.edu/~bmatthews1/|http://www.unm.edu/~bmatthews1/]], or at my codepen: [[https://codepen.io/tsuhre/]]. My programming background is in Java and Javascript with a focus on high level applications and UI.
  
- __Public Ulam Handel:__
+ __Public Ulam Handle:__
  
  [MFM-Handle:ben.matthews]
  
  -----BEGIN RSA PUBLIC KEY-----
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  DTO1YZwWmY65rSHZMtpbHv5WcjQrzbAScRAL6MkqBVgApXSHq/C8SqSG2hAWHTsv
  YTDCXlr3/2LXnl8NmYCve76Ja+8VOeNarCW/Yd+xsyCMjL2ZzRTNAgMBAAE=
  
  -----END RSA PUBLIC KEY-----
+ 
+ ----
+ ======Blue Sky Ideas======
+ 
+ *__Cellular Mitosis__:
+   * Create a model of a cell with a cell membrane and "DNA" information as a mass of different atoms, and have that cell undergo something similar to mitosis to replicate all of the features of that cell
+     * __Stretch goal__: work on the semi-permeable membrane problem
+ 
+ *__Genetic Creatures__:
+   * Create some "creatures" (small collections of connected atoms) that contain genetic information that define their behavior. Put these creatures in an environment with a goal (fitness function) and see if we can get them to exhibit interesting emergent behavior.
+     * __Stretch goal__: Social behavior
+ 
+ 
+ ======Final Research======
+ 
+ *__Final Paper:__
+ http://www.unm.edu/~bmatthews1/Science_in_the_MFM.pdf
+ 
+ *__Video Demo:__
+ {{youtube>6CNg1Q3RNWI?medium}}

josh_donckels

jdonckels@undisclosed.example.com (jdonckels) — Sun, 10 Dec 2017 20:01:08 +0000

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  Week 14 Update:
     *Found a few bugs in the repairing and was able to improve it
     *Redesigned fully-connected layer, to where it can classify four different patterns at any rotation
       * Box, two-length line, L shape, and a three-length line, I get a global max of 77.5% class rate
+      * Went back to three as I was running into problems and I get consistent 85% classification rate
     * Improved paper, still need more plots for results and an improved discussion
+      * Finished Paper!
+    
+ Week 15 Update: 
+    *Improved slides, and practiced presenting.  
+    *Finished everything and turned it in.
+ 
+

josh_donckels

jdonckels@undisclosed.example.com (jdonckels) — Sun, 10 Dec 2017 19:59:22 +0000

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  My name is Joshua Donckels\\
  I am a Computer Science Graduate Student pursuing a Master's Degree\\
- I have no idea what else to put here yet!
  
  <file pub jdonckels.pub>
  [MFM-Handle:jdonckels]
  -----BEGIN RSA PUBLIC KEY-----
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  UBhr1FBWG+O3LkMPBryWSJPwJwDeIpcP/C1lrWPoyJu9QGQJjPXHAgMBAAE=
  -----END RSA PUBLIC KEY-----
  </file>
  
- ===== Week Logs =====
-    *1. (9/12/2017)
-        *Read into artificial neural networks and their interworkings
-        *Created a project page at [[https://robust.cs.unm.edu/doku.php?id=project_people:josh_donckels]] 
+ My project is located in project_people(Josh_Donckels) page.
+

log

jelliott@undisclosed.example.com (jelliott) — Mon, 27 Nov 2017 16:48:01 +0000

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  ===== 2017 =====
  
  ==== November ====
+ 
+ === 2017-11-02 ===
+   * Not much to report code-wise. I've mostly just been running experiments and working on my paper.
+   * Tonight I'm probably going to actually make one tiny change to my code -- I need to so I can get a higher resolution on one of my independent variables. Something interesting might be happening very close to zero.
+ 
+ === 2017-11-02 ===
+   * Script that runs through various parameters and calls a given number of mfms runs with each value now works
+   * Unsurprisingly, the super-basic experiment I had set up does not produce a U-shaped curve
+   * The scripts for gathering data are fairly flexible -- I should be able to also use them for counting individual occurrences in the log files, too.
+   * That might be useful for quantifying something about how swarms work, because I'm still interested in building mobile swarms of beacons.
+   * Now that my data-gathering tooling is working I'll be getting back to aggressively expanding what my actual project code can do, and hopefully soon find a U-shaped curve somewhere. I had kind of put my actual ULAM code by the wayside to work on this stuff, because I wanted to have thorough data for Monday's presentation, even if it was of something really boring.
+   * I should be able to iterate and quantify at a fairly fast pace now, since I can use these scripts to get quantitative data out of some thousands of AEPS/minute.
  
  === 2017-11-01 ===
    * Parsing log files to make CSV data files of AEPS to completion from a series of experiments ... [drumroll] ... works
      * [this is me high-fiving a million angels]

work_log - Add some notes retroactively

davidringo@undisclosed.example.com (davidringo) — Tue, 07 Nov 2017 07:08:04 +0000

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+ ====== Work Log ======
+ 
+ //Note: I’ve not been good about keeping a log of work as I go, but I think it’s worth recounting the progress to date in terms of the major milestones at least. Entries that are added retroactively are labeled as such.//
+ 
+ ==== Sep 18, 2017 ====
+ 
+ Together with [[people:joaquin|Joaquin]], [[people:james_green|James]] and [[:jojo_frayre|Jojo]], created a 20-minute approximation of a ''%%Sun`` and%%''Ray''%%used to guide growth of%%''Leaf` elements. It worked pretty well for a first cut, and made the idea of vine-like growth I was aiming for in my first “Cool” element seem more tenable.
+ 
+ ==== Sep 19, 2017 ====
+ 
+ Added Garden idea to [[people:david_ringo:project_ideas|my project ideas]]
+ 
+ ==== (Retro) Project proposal Sept 20 ====
+ 
+ The initial proposal was to make a //Wall-less Garden// in the MFM, the name hinting at the goal of indefinite scalability. The basic goal is to approximate plant life with resource-driven growth and behavior.
+ 
+ The elements I saw making up the model were divided into two groups. Plant-like things such as ''%%Stem%%'', ''%%Leaf%%'', ''%%Flower%%'', and ''%%Root%%'' would make up the “organic” part of the universe, while resources would be gained from ''%%Sun%%''s producing ''%%Ray%%''s carrying //energy//, ''%%Dirt%%'' carrying //nutrients// and ''%%Water%%'' carrying //water//. These three resources would be required by the organic elements to live and grow, and would ideally drive their behavior patterns in interesting ways.
+ 
+ There were some unanswered questions, such as whether there should be any kind of reproduction or genetics in the plants, and what the perspective would look like. The slide (shown below) from the proposal showed a (hand-drawn) image of what it might look like, with ''%%Dirt%%'' at the bottom of the MFM window, and ''%%Stem%%''s growing upwards. It was suggested that the side-on perspective was not really compatible with the scalability goal (restricting the universe artificially), and so was born the idea of a “Space Garden”, where ''%%Dirt%%'' could cluster and permit outwards growth in any direction.
+ 
+ The biggest question to answer was the justification of the project. Then and now, I believe this is fundamentally interesting in a more artistic sense than anything else. While the model purports to demonstrate something approaching artificial life, the exploration of //that// aspect is less interesting to me than producing a universe in which cool-looking things can grow.
+ 
+ {{:people:david_ringo:wall-less_garden.pdf}}
+

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