Robust-first Computing Wiki - people:james_vickers

crit1

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 09 Sep 2014 00:10:49 +0000

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+ {{:people:james_vickers:crit1_presentation.pdf|Crit 1, version 1 (PDF)}}

crit2

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 18 Oct 2014 20:01:47 +0000

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7po96EMpVo
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+ **The "Isolator Bubble Repulsion" Algorithm:**
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+ {{:people:james_vickers:isolator_bubble_repulsion.pdf|Isolator Bubble Repulsion Algorithm}}
  
  **Stable repulsion versus moderately-powered Eraser's:**
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHva8nch6tc&feature=youtu.be
  
  **Isolator versus fully-powered Eraser's:**
  
  http://youtu.be/LMhSI_WH2XQ 
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- **The "Isolator Bubble Repulsion" Algorithm:**
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- {{:people:james_vickers:isolator_bubble_repulsion.pdf|Isolator Bubble Repulsion Algorithm}}
  
  **Future action items:**
  
- - Collect baseline data on Element (e.g. Data) survival against various levels of Eraser
- - Collect data on Element survival against various levels of Eraser with Isolator protection of varying Cell Radius
- - Looks like an inner Cell Radius of 2 for Isolator is pretty optimal so far
+   * Collect baseline data on Element (e.g. Data) survival against various levels of Eraser
+   *Collect data on Element survival against various levels of Eraser with Isolator protection of varying Cell Radius
+   *Looks like an inner Cell Radius of 2 for Isolator is pretty optimal so far

crit3

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 01 Dec 2014 02:01:33 +0000

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+ {{:people:james_vickers:591_proj_pres_v2.pdf|Project presentation (crit 3)}}

figure_1

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 16 Nov 2014 06:36:45 +0000

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- {{:people:james_vickers:591_figure1_v2.png?1400|}}
+ {{:people:james_vickers:591_figure1_v3.png?nolink&1000|}}

first_graphs

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 12 Nov 2014 07:18:29 +0000

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+ {{:people:james_vickers:tile_setup.png?nolink&300|}}
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+ {{:people:james_vickers:eraser_data_graphs.pdf| Eraser and Data populations}}
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+ {{:people:james_vickers:tile_setup1.png?nolink&300|}}
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+ {{:people:james_vickers:isolator_eraser_data_graphs.pdf|}}
+

model_desc_v2_plain

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 05 Nov 2014 05:45:46 +0000

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  The Adaptive Isolator accomplishes its goals with two primary behaviors:
  
  **Behavior 1: Surround other Element's**
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  When an Adaptive Isolator at site A sees any Element that is not of its own type at site B, it will:
    - Look at every site C within Event Window radius R of both A and B 
    - If C is less than bubble radius away from B and holds an Adaptive Isolator, set C to be Empty
    - If C is at least bubble radius away from B and is empty, set C to be another Adaptive Isolator
  The result of this behavior is that Adaptive Isolator surrounds the seen Element but gives it empty space of distance inner radius to move.  The add/erase behavior is how Adaptive Isolator's are collectively able to keep an Element surrounded as it diffuses spatially. 
  
  **Behavior 2: Swap Element's apart**
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  When an Adaptive Isolator at site A sees an Element at site B which is distance R-1 from A, it will:
    - Look at every site C that is at least distance R from B
    - If the Element at C is not an Adaptive Isolator nor empty:
      Let X be the horizontal offset from A to B, and Y be the vertical offset from A to B
      - If X is 0, swap B one unit in Y direction away from A
      - If Y is 0, swap B one unit in X direction away from A
-     - If both X and Y are non-zero, randomly choose to swap B one unit in either X or Y direction away
-       from A
+     - If both X and Y are non-zero, randomly choose to swap B one unit in either X or Y direction away from A
  The result of this behavior is that an Adaptive Isolator on the edge of an isolator bubble will repel (swap away) an Element E if it also sees some other Element E' further away.  This can break up Element's that are already close together when Adaptive Isolator's surround them, as well as cause bubble repulsion between groups of Adaptive Isolator's surrounding different Atoms.

pop_graphs

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 17 Nov 2014 06:19:53 +0000

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  {{:people:james_vickers:multiplots50k.pdf|Population multiplots}}
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+ **Setups:**
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+ {{:people:james_vickers:tile_setup.png?500|}}
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+ {{:people:james_vickers:tile_setup1.png?500|}}

project_submission

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 09 Dec 2014 03:00:48 +0000

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  **Complete archive of project:** http://www.cs.unm.edu/~jvick3/591_project.tar.gz
  
- **Project materials split apart by category:** 
+ **Project materials split up by category:** 
  
  {{:people:james_vickers:591_report_v7_final.pdf|Project paper}}
  
  Project video: http://youtu.be/H9u2lC2vM2g \\
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  Project presentation slides (crit 3): {{:people:james_vickers:591_proj_pres_v3.pdf|Slides}}
  
  Project data and Python scripts: http://www.cs.unm.edu/~jvick3/cs591_vickers_scripts_and_data.tar.gz
  
- Project code, full version: {{:people:james_vickers:vickers_mfmv2.tar.gz|Full MFM project (tar.gz)}}
+ Project code, full version: {{:people:james_vickers:vickers_mfmv2.tar.gz|Full MFM project (tar.gz)}} 
+ (should also be available on Github: https://github.com/jvick3/MFMv2) 
     
  Element header files: {{:people:james_vickers:vickers_custom_elems.tar.gz|Element header files (tar.gz)}}

researcher_pres

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 22 Sep 2014 05:11:18 +0000

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+ {{:people:james_vickers:alife_researcher_pres.pdf|Researcher presentation}}
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  Researcher: Steve Grand (born 1958 - NOT the country singer, haha)
  
  Quick notables:
  
   - Self-taught computer scientist, according the NYT article on him.  Works alone almost exclusively or with his wife.
  
-  - //Creatures// game, which is sort of an artificial life simulation where players raise and 'teach' virtual organisms kind of like pets.  This game is very popular and looks pretty legit.
+  - //Creatures// game, which is sort of an artificial life simulation where players raise and 'teach' virtual organisms kind of like pets.  This game is/was very popular and looks pretty legit.
  
-  - //Lucy the Android//, a project by Grand in which he made a small robot to simulate a baby orang-utan ("Lucy").  He wrote a book on this subject, called "Growing up with Lucy".  Project sounds awesome, pictures of the robot are downright creepy, though (and not in a cute robot way - more of an Exorcism way)
+  - //Lucy the Android//, a project in which Grand made a small robot to simulate a baby orang-utan ("Lucy").  He wrote a book on this subject, called "Growing up with Lucy".  Project sounds awesome, pictures of the robot are downright creepy, though (and not in a "cute robot" way - more of an Exorcism way)
  
   - //Sim-biosis//, a simulation game where users can build alife from small units (think Legos).  Code project is on SourceForge.
  
   - //Creation: Life and how to make it//, book published in 2001
  
   - Gave a TEDx talk entitled "What is the secret of consciousness?".  Date of talk currently not known.