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A friend of mine recently started a new youtube channel about cell biology. I would not share it if i didn't think it was exteenely good! Please share and subscribe and be amazed!
Its a rite of passage for everybody interested in alife!
Book cover of "Designing Data-Intensive Applications, 2nd edition". It has a similar wild boar on the cover as the first edition, but it uses O'Reilly's new cover design, and the boar is now slightly colourised.
The second edition of Designing Data-Intensive Applications, by myself and @chris.blue, is finished and sent off to the printers! Ebooks should be available in the next week, and print books in 3–4 weeks. Sigh of relief. 😅
(BTW, this is a good opportunity to support your favourite local bookshop!)
I'll be posting lectures (not discussions) of this semester's "Collective Dynamics of Complex Systems" Lecture 1: youtu.be/FBeL2jabjjM
Neural Particle Automata (NPA). It has to be done!
www.arxiv.org/abs/2601.16096
Demo: selforg-npa.github.io#growing
Such a cool paper, and demo!
@colemathis.bsky.social, first author of the paper is on bsky. You should check out the paper. And the follow-up: direct.mit.edu/isal/proceed...
This project is inspired by Lambda Soup: A Chemical Model of Computation (arxiv.org/pdf/2408.12137), though the concept of a 2D spatial grid Turing gas soup of lambda expressions was not present in that paper.
If you ever wonder what a pre-biotic turing gas lambda expression soup looks like, you need not look further.
github.com/craftlinks/N...
I'm teaching my evolutionary robotics course again, for those who want to follow along.
Lecture 1: why make robots?
youtu.be/FjNNFRDvQgs?...
I predict that sooner rather than later, for all intends and purposes, it will be generally more "clever" in any task than any human...but we will diminish it to "not AGI" because it operates and fails in a way that is alien to us. We will soon be dethroned in practice, but in denial.
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What a great talk again. I absorbed it like a sponge. So much insight packed together in 1 hour.
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Because we need to have the theory of mind to recognize and understand what other agents want. This is crucial for survival. Our own experience enables this skill.
Nobel Prize Laureate Roger Penrose, Yvette Fuentes, and myself, request your help in order to save an archive of incredible scientific and historical value. Please raise awareness by *sharing*, or *contribute*:
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/roger-penr...
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Impressive ecosystem simulation engine. I was completely unaware of this. Seems to have come out of nowhere. Watch it and feel amazed!
He doesn't need to evaluate all of them to know their shit or hit 😉
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This reminds me of the "philosophical zombie" arguments by David Chalmers on conscious experience. For decades I thought the p-zombie was a silly concept, but here we are...
An experiment in visualizing divisibility relationships in composite numbers using a particle system
This is all to say that I did not fully understand how you came to your conclusion from reading that paper (if I interpreted your words correctly that is).
In my definition of Computable most simulations are only useful when we compute irreducible rule systems, like rule 30, for example. I would further propose that our universe itself is a vast but finite state space.
Your conclusion from the paper you review confuses me: "It suggests that most artificial life systems and simulations, which rely on computable rules and finite state spaces, are inherently incapable of strong OEE."
I read your post because your terminology 'computability' confused me. I think it means something like 'reducible computation', eg finding an algebraic solution.
Once you have a good code template that it can follow, the quality experience can drastically shift: less hand-holding required, faster iteration times. And you're right of course, good engineering skills are still very much required to sculpt the final result to something really decent.
Yeah but, even statistically, this mistake is an outlier in c code base training data...the number of basic C introductory courses etc. you get my point.
This is a human mistake, an LLM will not make such a mistake unless it does not know it's writing C.
A preliminary experiment with NetWorks and chaotic systems.
NetWorks is a non-AI, generative algorithm that seeks to tap into the creativity of complex, self-organizing systems.
youtu.be/hj2vY_vPFAE?...
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I made a thing, based on Particle Lenia. I don't think anyone explored it in a multi-particle setup and ...lots of particles. Jump to min 20 for particle life-like critters in Particle Lenia!
Experiment 35
