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Category Archives: Emergence
Weightlifting ant is photo winner
Ants change the size of their feet to help them lift An amazing image of an ant lifting 100 times its body weight has won first prize in a science photography contest. The image shows an Asian weaver ant hanging … Continue reading
Link: 'Hello World' genetic algorithm
I enjoyed a post today at Hidden Clause talking about an attempt to generate the string ‘hello, world!’ using a genetic algorithm. In the first chapter of the documentation for the Watchmaker Framework Daniel W. Dyer presents an interesting genetic … Continue reading
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Predicting Gambling behavior
“Using Neural Networks to Model the Behavior and Decisions of Gamblers, in Particular, Cyber-Gamblers.” by Victor K. Y. Chan. A system is written that utilizes a back-propagation neural network to model Texas Holdem gamblers’ behavior, based on data collected from a cyber gambling … Continue reading
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Tagged backpropagation, neural network, poker, prediction, publication
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Greater Diversity through Evolutionary Algorithms
Recently I read a rather interesting article from a Scientific American blog which hypothesizes about the shape of the human penis from an evolutionary standpoint. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=secrets-of-the-phallus [The methodology employed is described as ”logico-deductive investigative” — meaning that the penis current … Continue reading
Aggregates, Crystals and a simple algorithm to explore.
A particle randomly floats through space eventually encountering a stationary ‘seed’. The two stick together and form a cluster that grows and grows as more randomly floating particles encounter it and attach themselves. This is a simple algorithm, and it … Continue reading
Emergence Project: Representing a Textual Discourse
via information aesthetics on 11/18/08 The Emergence Project [emergenceproject.org] is a “software art” installation exhibited at Hyde Park Art Center‘s digital building facade gallery. It is based on the ideas and textual discourse that emanated out of the Chicago Humanities Festival: its presentations, performances, and panel discussions … Continue reading
TedTalk: Learning from Evolution
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/robert_full_on_engineering_and_evolution.html Robert Full describes ways in which engineers can and have learned from evolutionary systems in biology. He notes that we can get ideas from animals and insects, but we cannot copy them blindly.
Surprising Results from Emergent Systems II
I can’t help but share this video with you. Yes, it is an ant colony. You might rather call this an ant city-state, though. This massive construction displaced 40 tons of soil during construction. A scaled comparison to a human … Continue reading
Surprising Results from Emergent Systems
One of my favorite examples of a surprising result from an emergent system is an experiment that utilized a genetic algorithm to solve a sorting problem on a FPGA chip. The hope was to arrive at the best (minimal) solution … Continue reading
Emergence
Emergence is a very interesting concept in the computing world: the idea that complex phenomenon can arise from relatively simple interactions. There are two types of emergence, somewhat controversially: weak emergence and strong emergence. The wikipedia article provides an introduction to the … Continue reading
