https://robust.cs.unm.edu/ Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:07:07 +0000 FeedCreator 1.8 https://robust.cs.unm.edu/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=wiki:logo.png https://robust.cs.unm.edu/ https://robust.cs.unm.edu/doku.php?id=coursework:2014f:boot_camp_signup&rev=1411151549 <pre> @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Everybody is urged to put their name in a slot in the table below, replacing an **available**. Don&#039;t move other people&#039;s names - but it&#039;s okay to have more than one person in a slot if you like! ^ Time ^ Wed: Sep 17, 2014 ^ Fri: Sep 19, 2014 ^ ^ 12-1 | [[people:xinyu_chen|Xinyu Chen]] | [[people:chris_symonds|Chris Symonds]] | - ^ 1-2 | [[people:max_ottesen|Max Ottesen]], [[people:lucas_nunno|Lucas Nunno]] | [[people:taylor_berger|Taylor Berger]] | - ^ 2-3 | [[people:james_vickers|Vickers]] | **available** | + ^ 1-2 | [[people:max_ottesen|Max Ottesen]], [[people:lucas_nunno|Lucas Nunno]] | [[people:taylor_berger|Taylor Berger]], [[people:ronnie_garduno|Ronnie Garduno]] | + ^ 2-3 | [[people:james_vickers|Vickers]] | [[people:ezra_stallings|Ezra]] | </pre> anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Fri, 19 Sep 2014 18:32:29 +0000 https://robust.cs.unm.edu/doku.php?id=coursework:2014f:crit_1_signup&rev=1409602164 <pre> @@ -3,11 +3,11 @@ Put your name in one slot in the table below, replacing a **CxWyPz available**. Don&#039;t move other people&#039;s names! First-come first served. People not signed up by Mon Sep 1 will be assigned positions starting from earliest available! Try not to mess up the table formatting! ^ Position ^ Week 1: Sep 8, 2014 ^ Week 2: Sep 15, 2014 ^ ^ 1 | **[[people:taylor_berger|Taylor Berger]]** | **[[people:james_vickers|James Vickers]]** | - ^ 2 | **C1W1P2 available** | **[[people:max_ottesen|Max Ottesen]]** | - ^ 3 | **C1W1P3 available** | **[[people:lucas_nunno|Lucas Nunno]]** | + ^ 2 | **[[people:andres_ruiz|Andres Ruiz]]** | **[[people:max_ottesen|Max Ottesen]]** | + ^ 3 | **[[people:Xinyu Chen]]** | **[[people:lucas_nunno|Lucas Nunno]]** | ^ 4 | **[[people:Ronnie Garduño]]** | **[[people:chris_symonds|Chris Symonds]]** | ^ 5 | **C1W1P5 available** | **[[people:trent_small|Trent Small]]** | ^ 6 | **C1W1P6 available** | **[[people:ezra_stallings|Ezra Stallings]]** | </pre> anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Mon, 01 Sep 2014 20:09:24 +0000 https://robust.cs.unm.edu/doku.php?id=coursework:2014f:crit_2_signup&rev=1413234534 <pre> @@ -2,10 +2,19 @@ Put your name in one slot in the table below, replacing a **CxWyPz available**. Don&#039;t move other people&#039;s names! First-come first served. People not signed up by Sun Oct 12 will be assigned positions starting from earliest available! Try not to mess up the table formatting! ^ Position ^ Week 1: Oct 13, 2014 ^ Week 2: Oct 20, 2014 ^ - ^ 1 | **C2W1P1** | **[[people:chris_symonds|Chris Symonds]]** | - ^ 2 | **C2W1P2** | **[[people:max_ottesen|Max Ottesen]]** | - ^ 3 | **C2W1P3** | **[[people:lucas_nunno|Lucas Nunno]]** ([[people:lucas_nunno:project:crit2|Crit 2]]) | - ^ 4 | **C2W1P4** | **[[people:trent_small|Trent Small]]** | - ^ 5 | **C2W1P5** | **[[people:james_vickers|Vickers]]** | + ^ 1 | **[[people:lucas_nunno|Lucas Nunno]] ([[people:lucas_nunno:project:crit2|Crit 2]])** | **[[people:chris_symonds|Chris Symonds]]** | + ^ 2 | **[[people:xinyu_chen|Xinyu Chen]]** | **[[people:max_ottesen|Max Ottesen]]** | + ^ 3 | **[[people::ezra_stallings|Ezra Stallings]]** | **[[people:taylor_berger|Taylor Berger]]** | + ^ 4 | **[[people::ronnie_garduno|Ronnie Garduno]]** | **[[people:trent_small|Trent Small]]** | + ^ 5 | **[[people::andres_ruiz|Andres Ruiz]]** | **[[people:james_vickers|Vickers]]** | + + (Emacs randomization via (insert (format &quot;%5d &quot; (% (abs (random)) 10000))) + at 13-Oct-2014 05:58:55AM-0600: + 9125 Andres + 8416 Ezra + 8531 Ronnie + 3559 Taylor + 7379 Xinyu + ) </pre> anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Mon, 13 Oct 2014 21:08:54 +0000 https://robust.cs.unm.edu/doku.php?id=coursework:2014f:crit_3_signup&rev=1416680465 <pre> @@ -3,9 +3,8 @@ **If you are one of the folks that got &#039;first dibs&#039; on crit 3**, put your name in one slot in the table below, replacing a **CxWyPz available**. //After 4AM Mountain time on Thursday, Nov 20, 2014, anybody can sign up in any available slot!// Don&#039;t move other people&#039;s names! First-come first served, after 20-Nov-2014 04:00:00AM-0700! People not signed up by Sun Nov 23 will be assigned positions starting from earliest available! Try not to mess up the table formatting! ^ Position ^ Week 1: Nov 24, 2014 ^ Week 2: Dec 1, 2014 ^ ^ 1 | [[People:Xinyu Chen]] | [[People:james_vickers|Vickers]] | - ^ 2 | [[people:lucas_nunno|Lucas Nunno]] | [[People:trent_small | Trent Small]] | + ^ 2 | [[people:lucas_nunno|Lucas Nunno]] (presentation [[https://www.dropbox.com/s/88ezrgadtqjhhum/crit3-presentation.pptx?dl=0|Powerpoint]] [[https://www.dropbox.com/s/6y3k5jy6kps7jwu/crit3-presentation.pdf?dl=0|PDF]]) | [[People:trent_small | Trent Small]] | ^ 3 | [[people:chris_symonds|Chris Symonds]] | [[People:Andres Ruiz]] | ^ 4 | **C3W1P4 available** | [[People:ezra_stallings | Ezra Stallings]] | - ^ 5 | **C3W1P5 available** | [[People:max_ottesen | Max Ottesen]] | - + ^ 5 | [[people:taylor_berger|Taylor Berger]] | [[People:max_ottesen | Max Ottesen]] | </pre> anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Sat, 22 Nov 2014 18:21:05 +0000 https://robust.cs.unm.edu/doku.php?id=coursework:2014f:intermediate_elements_signup&rev=1411582339 <pre> @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Everybody is invited to put their name in a slot in the table below, replacing an **available**. Don&#039;t move other people&#039;s names - but it&#039;s okay to have more than one person in a slot if you like! ^ Time^ Wed: Sep 24, 2014 ^ Time^Thu: Sep 25, 2014 ^ ^ 12-1| available ^ 3:30-4:30|Vickers | - ^ 1-2| available ^ 4:30-5:30|available | - ^ 2-3| available ^ 5:30-6:30|available | + ^ 1-2| available ^ 4:30-5:30|Xinyu Chen | + ^ 2-3| [[people:ezra_stallings|Ezra]] ^ 5:30-6:30|available | </pre> anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Wed, 24 Sep 2014 18:12:19 +0000 https://robust.cs.unm.edu/doku.php?id=coursework:2014f:juergen&rev=1414296332 <pre> @@ -1 +1,41 @@ + ====== Jürgen Schmidhuber ====== + {{:coursework:2014f:juergen.gif?200 |}} + Jürgen seems to be a god-tier researcher in the fields of neural networks, machine learning and artificial intelligence. He and his research teams have won nine international competitions in machine learning and pattern recognition. He has an incredible list of academic accolades that seem to fly his way whenever he touches something. + + Diploma: 1987 from Technische Universität München (4 years compared to an average of 6.05) + + PhD: 1991 Technische Universität München //Dynamic Neural Nets and the Fundamental Spatio-Temporal Credit Assignment Problem// + + Tenure awarded in 1993 at age 30 (German average is 40 years old) + + His [[http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/|homepage]] + + ===== Initial Impression ===== + He cannot be human. He is an absolute monster when it comes to cutting edge research in A-Life. + + * Number 1458 in the most cited computer science authors (2008). + * Established the field of Universal AI (universal way of predicting) + * He generalized algorithmic information theory, and the many-worlds theory of physics, to obtain a minimal theory of all constructively computable universes + * Essentially started the field of Deep Learning by writing the first &#039;Long Short-Term Memory&#039; Recurrent Neural Network (Google, IBM &amp; Microsoft now employ these techniques) + * An incredibly amount of firsts (first deep learners to win pattern recognition contests in general, first to win object detection contests, first to win pure image segmentation contest, first superhuman visual recognition performance) + * Wrote the first genetic programming system with loops and variable length code -- published the second paper on GP + + + ===== Field Contributions ===== + He has made a myriad of contributions to the following fields: + + * Neural Networks (with LSTM RNNs) + * Deep Learning &amp; Computer Vision (Fast Deep Neural Nets, Learning attentive vision - identifying and tracking moving targets) + * Artificial Evolution (Yay! Genetic programming, Meta GP, Probabilistic incremental program evolution) + * Reinforcement Learning + * Unsupervised Learning + * Metalearning Machines + * Swarm Intelligence (artificial ants, breaking records and benchmarks) + * Optimally efficient, universal problem solver (Gödel machine - provably correct, more efficient rewrites of it&#039;s own code and functions or algorithms it is applied to) + * Optimal Ordered Problem Solver + * Universal Learning Algorithms (&quot;There is a theoretically optimal way of predicting the future, given the past. It can be used to define an optimal (though noncomputable) rational agent...&quot;) + * Algorithmic Theories of Everything (...) + * Analyzes all the universes with limit-computable probabilities as well as the very limits of formal describability. + * Super Omegas and Generalized Kolmogorov Complexity and Algorithmic Probability (???) + * Made a formal theory of creativity... wat ({{:coursework:2014f:femmefractale466.gif?linkonly|Low-Complexity Art)}}) </pre> anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Sun, 26 Oct 2014 04:05:32 +0000 https://robust.cs.unm.edu/doku.php?id=coursework:2014f:langton_chris&rev=1411924544 <pre> @@ -1 +1,20 @@ + {{ :coursework:2014f:langtonsmall2.png?nolink&amp;200|}}====== Christopher Langton ====== + Chris Langton is a Computer Scientist and one of the founders of the Artificial Life field. He coined the term &quot;artificial life&quot; in the late 1980s. He was born in Cambridge in 1948 and received his PhD from the University of Michigan in 1991. Two of his most famous simple artificial life simulations are the Langton Ant and the Langton Loop. + + + ---- + ===== Langton&#039;s Ant ===== + {{ :coursework:2014f:langtonsant.png?nolink&amp;200|}} + {{ :coursework:2014f:langtonsantanimated.gif?nolink&amp;200|}} + + Langton&#039;s Ant is a 2-D Turing Machine with very simple rules. You have an &quot;ant&quot; that runs on a grid of black and white cells. If the ant is on a white square, it colors it black, turns 90 degrees right, then moves forward one unit. If the ant is on a black square, it colors it white, turns 90 degrees left, then moves forward one unit. This .gif shows the first 200 steps of Langton&#039;s Ant. In 2000, [[http://www.dim.uchile.cl/~anmoreir/oficial/langton_dam.pdf|A. Gajardo, A. Moreira, and E. Goles]] showed that you could construct any boolean circuit using the trajectory of a single instance of Langton&#039;s Ant. This means that it would be possible to simulate a Turing Machine using the ant&#039;s trajectory for computation and therefore that the ant is capable of universal computation. + + Multiple Ant&#039;s can exist on the same plane. [[http://youtu.be/w6XQQhCgq5c?t=1m40s|This video]] shows some interesting behavior that arises when you have multiple ants. + + + ---- + ===== Langton&#039;s Loops ===== + {{ :coursework:2014f:langtons_loop.png?nolink&amp;200|}} + + Langton&#039;s Loops are a cellular automata that consist of a loop of cells that contain genetic information which flows continuously around the loop and out along an &quot;arm&quot; of the loop. That outflowing information will become a daughter loop. It is one of the simplest known structures capable of reproducing itself. After a loop is surrounded by other loops and unable to reproduce into unoccupied space, it will &quot;die&quot;. After a while, a colony will have formed with the living, reproducing loops in a ring around the outside and the dead loops forming the inside core of the colony. They will continue to expand indefinitely if they are in unbounded space. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iDc4C6vbcc|This video]] shows the loops at work and explains how they work. </pre> anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Sun, 28 Sep 2014 17:15:44 +0000 https://robust.cs.unm.edu/doku.php?id=coursework:2014f:moshe_sipper&rev=1415044825 <pre> @@ -11,8 +11,10 @@ Dr. Sipper has published over 160 scientific publications including three research-related books: Evolved to Win, Machine Nature: The Coming Age of Bio-Inspired Computing, and Evolution of Parallel Cellular Machines: The Cellular Programming Approach. Dr. Sipper won the 2015 IEEE CIS Outstanding Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games (TCIAIG) Paper award, the 2008 BGU Toronto Prize for Academic Excellence in Research, the 1999 EPFL Latsis Prize, and six HUMIE Awards — Human-Competitive Results Produced by Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (Gold, 2013; Gold, 2011; Bronze, 2009; Bronze, 2008; Silver, 2007; Bronze, 2005). + + {{ :coursework:2014f:hclogomf.jpg?300 |}} As you can see, he&#039;s a very busy guy... [[http://cs.unm.edu/~lnunno/ral/sipper.html|I created a visualization of (a subset of) his publication history here.]] @@ -24,8 +26,9 @@ Sipper&#039;s most cited work (according to Google Scholar) is his 1997 book [[ftp://212.235.189.206/PST_books/EvolutionOfParallelCellularMachines_MosheSipper.pdf|Evolution of Parallel Cellular Machines: The Cellular Programming Approach]]. * Asks: &quot;can we mimic nature&#039;s achievements of parallel cellular machines?&quot; * Shows universal computation can be attained in cellular spaces. + * Explains how logic gates, wires, signals, clock, and memory can all be embedded in CAs. In chapter 2 of the book, a pretty interesting read. * Explores the coevolution of cellular computation. * Shows the Firefly machine which is an online autonomous &quot;evolware&quot; {{ :coursework:2014f:firefly.png |}} </pre> anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Mon, 03 Nov 2014 20:00:25 +0000 https://robust.cs.unm.edu/doku.php?id=coursework:2014f:ofria_charles&rev=1411410332 <pre> @@ -1,5 +1,7 @@ ======== Charles Ofria ======== + + {{ andres:ofriaphoto-web.jpg?200 | http://www.ofria.com/OfriaPhoto-web.jpg}} ---- @@ -22,9 +24,15 @@ == Avida: == Avida is a computational platform that allows digital (computerized) organisms simulate evolution in a controlled environment. The claim that evolution would happen in a virtual environment is support by the fact that, to quote Daniel Dennett, &quot;...evolution will occur whenever and wherever three conditions are met: replication, variation (mutation), and differential fitness (competition)&quot; [3]. The Avida platform is broken up into 3 modules: //Avida Core//, //GUI// and //analysis and statistics tools//. + + ---- + + === Links: === + * www.ofria.com + * http://avida-ed.msu.edu/ ==== References ==== - Lenski, R. E., Ofria, C., Pennock, R. T., &amp; Adami, C. (2003). The evolutionary origin of complex features. Nature, 423(6936), 139-144. - Ofria C and Wilke CO (2004) Avida: A Software Platform for Research in Computational Evolutionary Biology, Journal of Artificial Life, 10:191-229. - Dennett, D. (2002). The new replicators. In M. Pagel (Ed.), Encyclopedia of evolution (pp.E83–E92). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. </pre> anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Mon, 22 Sep 2014 18:25:32 +0000 https://robust.cs.unm.edu/doku.php?id=coursework:2014f:ray_tom&rev=1412649325 <pre> @@ -44,9 +44,9 @@ At this point, Ray turned off mutation, however the digital organisms continued to evolve. Ray eventually discovered that the organisms had discovered &quot;sexual reproduction&quot; and were reproducing with each other, creating offspring that were mutated combinations of the parents. Ray was no longer in control of the process. &quot;I stood back and watched like a god satisfied with his creation&quot; - ===To the LPU and beyond=== + ===Exploring A New World=== Over 30 papers, articles, and journals were published in the span of 5 years. The next 20 years of research is spent pushing the field of artificial life and digital evolution. Highlights include: 1991: Transition to Computational Evolution and Documenting Tierra * Genetic Algorithms @@ -67,9 +67,9 @@ * A proposal to create a network-wide biodiversity reserve for digital organisms. * The first Tierra workshop - derivative works (Charles Ofria, Avida) 1996 - * The last Terria workshop + * The last Terria workshop? 1997 * Evolving Parallel Computation * Evolution as Artist (applying evolution to the world of art and the creative process) @@ -82,15 +82,8 @@ * Evolution of Complexity: Tissue Differentiation in Network Tierra 2002 * Critique of Ray Kurzweil&#039;s Age of Spiritual Machines - - Ray: &quot;Kurzweil does not understand that it is the act of measurement that causes the collapse of the wave function, not conscious observation of the measurement.&quot; - - Kurzweil: &quot;It is only through the collapse of the wave function that an event becomes determinate and thereby causes a reaction in the world, which constitutes a measurement. It is, therefore, the collapse of the wave function that causes measurement, which Ray tells us causes collapse of the wave function. So what Ray is saying is that the collapse of the wave function causes the collapse of the wave function. By removing the concept of observation from measurement, Ray’s explanation of quantum mechanics devolves into this tautology.&quot; - - {{ :coursework:2014f:vizzini.jpg?nolink |Truly, Kurzweil has a dizzying intellect}} - 2004-5 * Evolution, Robustness and Adaptation of Sidewinding Locomotion of Simulated Snake-like Robot @@ -133,5 +126,5 @@ [[http://life.ou.edu/|Tom&#039;s Homepage]] [[http://life.ou.edu/tierra/|Tierra Project Homepage]] - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wl5rRGVD0QI|Tierra Project Movie (YouTube | 22:37)]] + [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wl5rRGVD0QI|Tierra Project Movie (YouTube | 22:37) 1995 - With Stephanie Forrest]] </pre> anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Tue, 07 Oct 2014 02:35:25 +0000 https://robust.cs.unm.edu/doku.php?id=coursework:2014f:some_alife_researchers&rev=1414881096 <pre> @@ -15,9 +15,9 @@ * Fontana, Walter * Grand, Steve (**Reserved by [[people:james_vickers|Vickers]]**) * Grey Walter, William (**Reserved by [[people:Xinyu Chen]]**) * Harvey, Inman - * Ikegami, Takahashi + * Ikegami, Takahashi (**Reserved by [[people:ezra_stallings|Ezra]]**) * [[Langton, Chris|Langton, Chris]] (**Reserved by [[people:max_ottesen|Max]]**) * Lenski, Richard * McMullin, Barry * Melanie, Mitchell @@ -27,8 +27,8 @@ * Prigogine, Ilya * Rasmussen, Steen * [[Ray, Tom|Ray, Tom]] (**Reserved by [[people:chris_symonds|Chris]]**) * Sayama, Hiroshi - * [[Schmidhuber, Juergen | juergen]] (**Reserved by [[people:taylor_berger|Taylor]]**) + * [[juergen|Schmidhuber, Juergen]] (**Reserved by [[people:taylor_berger|Taylor]]**) * [[Moshe Sipper|Sipper, Moshe]] (**Reserved by [[people:lucas_nunno|Lucas]]**) * Stepney, Susan </pre> anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Sat, 01 Nov 2014 22:31:36 +0000 https://robust.cs.unm.edu/doku.php?id=coursework:2014f:update_camp_signup&rev=1414559863 <pre> @@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ Everybody is invited to put their name in a slot in the table below, replacing an **available**. Don&#039;t move other people&#039;s names - but it&#039;s okay to have more than one person in a slot if you like! ^ Time^ Wed: Oct 29, 2014 ^ Time^Thu: Oct 30, 2014 ^ - ^ 12-1| available ^ 3:30-4:30|Ezra, Vickers | - ^ 1-2| available ^ 4:30-5:30|Xinyu | + ^ 12-1| Lucas ^ 3:30-4:30|Ezra, Vickers | + ^ 1-2| Max ^ 4:30-5:30|Xinyu | ^ 2-3| Taylor ^ 5:30-6:30|available | </pre> anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Wed, 29 Oct 2014 05:17:43 +0000 https://robust.cs.unm.edu/doku.php?id=coursework:2014f:week_1&rev=1408444582 <pre> @@ -1,31 +1,30 @@ ====== CS491/591 Fall 2014 Week 1 ====== ===== Who are we: ===== - * Dave Ackley: + * Dave Ackley: - * James Vickers: Ugrad, now grad an UNM. Sandia-ite. Youtube videos were interesting. Simple living things are.. + * James Vickers: Ugrad, now grad an UNM. Sandia-ite. Youtube videos were interesting. Simple living things are.. - * Andres: Colombia ugrad, now grad UNM; works with Trilce. Could change everything. Be involved in the future. Colombia CS profs more interested in the money.. the grants.. No computer science in Colombia. + * Andres: Colombia ugrad, now grad UNM; works with Trilce. Could change everything. Be involved in the future. Colombia CS profs more interested in the money.. the grants.. No computer science in Colombia. - * Chris: Weirdo. Film degree. Computer Science year-and-a-half; still feel impostor syndrome. Here because FrobWorld was cool. Not so much researchy. Lots of jerks &quot;big personalities&quot; in film and CS. - Pirates of the Caribbean. Scare Tactics. + * Chris: Weirdo. Film degree. Computer Science year-and-a-half; still feel impostor syndrome. Here because FrobWorld was cool. Not so much researchy. Lots of jerks &quot;big personalities&quot; in film and CS. Pirates of the Caribbean. Scare Tactics. - * Trent: Ugrad in CS. Working with Ackley-here. Working on the software. Interests in cellular automata; more potential than payoff. Into CS for entertainment. + * Trent: Ugrad in CS. Working with Ackley-here. Working on the software. Interests in cellular automata; more potential than payoff. Into CS for entertainment. - * Ezra Stallings: Minor in IFDM, hated it. Interested in games; took the AI class. AI: Little big for the buck. Interesting from the esthetics PoV. Less Alife on google than you&#039;d think. + * Ezra Stallings: Minor in IFDM, hated it. Interested in games; took the AI class. AI: Little big for the buck. Interesting from the esthetics PoV. Less Alife on google than you&#039;d think. - * Max Ottesen: Wondering about grad school. Saw the videos. Rock climb. Busted an ankle. Fell 20&#039;. Oww. + * Max Ottesen: Wondering about grad school. Saw the videos. Rock climb. Busted an ankle. Fell 20&#039;. Oww. - * Safee: New grad student. Bangladesh. Computational biology. Sequencing. Anti-sense RNA for HIV. Samsung mobile development. + * Safee: New grad student. Bangladesh. Computational biology. Sequencing. Anti-sense RNA for HIV. Samsung mobile development. - * Lucas: Grad CS. Close to done, hoo-hah! Took AI electives; ran out. Scraping the bottom of the barrel, here. Can&#039;t AI at work, so.. Machine learning stuff was cool. Wondering what the future might have out of this class. Would Google hire this stuff? + * Lucas: Grad CS. Close to done, hoo-hah! Took AI electives; ran out. Scraping the bottom of the barrel, here. Can&#039;t AI at work, so.. Machine learning stuff was cool. Wondering what the future might have out of this class. Would Google hire this stuff? - * Taylor: New grad student. YASandiaite. Old fashioned Correctness S/W SUCKS HARD. Needed an Ackley class, scraping the bottom of the barrel. President of the fencing club. + * Taylor: New grad student. YASandiaite. Old fashioned Correctness S/W SUCKS HARD. Needed an Ackley class, scraping the bottom of the barrel. President of the fencing club. - * Chinyu: Videos: Always working! Everything is life! A country is life. Many things share pattern.. Anything born, hang around, die: Life. China is interesting. Tibet. Walked around Kimash; two days. + * Chinyu: Videos: Always working! Everything is life! A country is life. Many things share pattern.. Anything born, hang around, die: Life. China is interesting. Tibet. Walked around Kimash; two days. - * Ronnie: New grad student. From Albuquerque! Interested in AI, ALife, cognitive science, biologically-inpsired computing... and other stuff. Been doing some research in computational complexity; looking forward to coding up robotic monsters to overthrow world. + * Ronnie: New grad student. From Albuquerque! Interested in AI, ALife, cognitive science, biologically-inpsired computing... and other stuff. Been doing some research in computational complexity; looking forward to coding up robotic monsters to overthrow world. ===== Dave opening rant: It all sucks, but that&#039;s okay. ===== </pre> anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Tue, 19 Aug 2014 10:36:22 +0000 https://robust.cs.unm.edu/doku.php?id=coursework:2014f:week_2&rev=1409033570 <pre> @@ -3,11 +3,24 @@ * Shark Week parameters - * Taylor: SB: 65, EPF: 5, FB: 20 &gt;40kAEPS - * Chris: SB: 15, EPF: 4, FB: 5 &gt;150kAEPS - * Vickers: SB: 73, EPF: 3, FB: 13 &gt;90kAEPS - * Andres: SB: 100, EPF: 5, FB: 50 &gt;170kAEPS - * Xinyu: SB: 55, EPF: 4, FB: 20 &gt;70kAEPS - * Trent: SB: 15, EPF: 5, FB: 6 &gt;62kAEPS - * Ronnie: SB: 48, EPF: 12, FB: 20 ~20kAEPS - * Ezra: SB: 100, EPF: ~20&#039;s, FB: ~Z5 ~15kAEPS - * Lucas: SB: 20, EPF: 10, FB: 20 ~30kAEPS + * Taylor: SB: 65, EPF: 5, FB: 20 &gt;40kAEPS + * Chris: SB: 15, EPF: 4, FB: 5 &gt;150kAEPS + * Vickers: SB: 73, EPF: 3, FB: 13 &gt;90kAEPS + * Andres: SB: 100, EPF: 5, FB: 50 &gt;170kAEPS + * Xinyu: SB: 55, EPF: 4, FB: 20 &gt;70kAEPS + * Trent: SB: 15, EPF: 5, FB: 6 &gt;62kAEPS + * Ronnie: SB: 48, EPF: 12, FB: 20 ~20kAEPS + * Ezra: SB: 100, EPF: ~20&#039;s, FB: ~Z5 ~15kAEPS + * Lucas: SB: 20, EPF: 10, FB: 20 ~30kAEPS + Project ideas + * Lucas: Civilization + * Vickers: Disease, e.g., shark pathogen, infectious between sharks. study effects on virus spread, population. + * Ezra: Build a self-evolving gating. E.g., a car that goes until it hits a sign, and the sign says what to do next. &quot;Self-adapting distributed traffic control&quot; + * Taylor: Put a neural network in that mofo. Maybe a dendritic tree from a DLA process. &quot;An indefinitely scalable brain&quot; + * Max: Music generation. Moving notes, y axis for semitones. &quot;The Real Music of Artificial Life&quot; + * Ronnie: Attack the DHS: Derailing the sorting. Adversarial data. &quot;A sorting muscle&quot;. Data rate. Occasionally. &quot;Robust sorting in the face of malicious attacks&quot; + * Andres: Data privacy. Robustness vs privacy. Redundancy is risk. Provable sercurity via light cone protection. + * Xinyu: Emotions inside the brain. Events are postiive or negative. How to operationalize. &quot;Finding happiness in robust whatever xxx&quot; + * Chris: Frobworld with swords and altruism. Altruism in a condition of scarcity. Interplay of group and individual. + * Trent: Artificial chemistry, forming covalent bonds. Building molecules out of atoms. Effects of geometry. DLA forming? Movable bag. + * &quot;Shark Birth Control&quot; &quot;Shark Hara-kiri&quot; + * </pre> anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Tue, 26 Aug 2014 06:12:50 +0000 https://robust.cs.unm.edu/doku.php?id=coursework:2014f:week_4&rev=1410211603 <pre> @@ -1 +1,14 @@ + ====== Meeting Notes 08-Sep-2014 02:45:00PM-0600 ====== + * Dave: Working on 2.0.8. Horrible intermittent thread problem :( The fact that threads are so horrible says something fundamental. + * Ezra: My coffee, myself. + * Taylor: Almost on time! Project fleshing out.. skeleton. + * Ronnie: Alife literature doesn&#039;t reflect our stuff. Agent-based systems. + * Lucas: Wall-purist shark challenge. Compiled the github trunk! + * Trent: Compiled, natch. Re-re-re-thought. Procedural city generation FTW. + * Andres: Re..re.. etc. Poster: Dimensionality reduction.. + * Ezra: Bonus meeting Wed. Shark challenge big success. + * Xinyu: Shark Challenge. Wall and stuff. Diversity. W Walter Grey. + * Vickers: Shark shark shark. + * Chris: Out of town. Ketchup. Walls. Then Dregs. Up to 80kAEPS Project woes. + * Max: Not too much.. Spacing walls into a grid. Discovered the MQbar. Project thoughts: Music too far out? Too specific for science. </pre> anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Mon, 08 Sep 2014 21:26:43 +0000 https://robust.cs.unm.edu/doku.php?id=coursework:2014f:week_5&rev=1410815524 <pre> @@ -1 +1,11 @@ + ====== Week 5 ====== + 15-Sep-2014 + + * Ronnie&#039;s keyboard found + * Dave working on the parameter system for MFM + * Lucas Egg-Drop: One tile wall, no. Stalling sludge, yes + * Ezra: Dreg + fish stick tile but cheated and changed parameters. + * Ronnie: Corner tile plus walls. 5k + * Vickers: Tried Af. 10k + * Xinyu: Walls with lobster trap holes. Also dreg and sorter. </pre> anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Mon, 15 Sep 2014 21:12:04 +0000 https://robust.cs.unm.edu/doku.php?id=coursework:2014f:week_7&rev=1412026784 <pre> @@ -1 +1,5 @@ - + * Max is 20 + * Andres is baffled by atomic parameters + * Why SetSharkEnergy can be const? + * ATOM_FIRST_STATE_BIT is the first index that you can use + * Coordinate enumerationo </pre> anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Mon, 29 Sep 2014 21:39:44 +0000