The second paper published at ALIFE 2018 was a continuation of my work with Jared Moore on Lexicase Selection. This poster presentation discussed the reasons why Lexicase performs well in our evolutionary robotics task.
I just returned from ALIFE 2018 where I presented a paper that describes using noise in the genotype-to-phenotype translation of evolved neural networks, when applied to robot control. I called this technique Stochastic Ontogenesis.
Many of the most advanced robots are inspired by nature. US Department of Defense Adam Stanton, Keele University Boston Dynamic’s dog-like SpotMini robot is to go on sale in 2019. This cute and uncannily realistic… Read More »Why do robots look like animals and humans?
The postman comes to my house once per day – if that. My email comes all the time, and it’s bad for productivity and focus. Happily, it’s possible to change that with gmail-based email in… Read More »How can I make my email arrive only once per day?
Here’s a bash function for rolling the dice! d() { if echo $1 | egrep -q “[0-9]*d[0-9]+($|(?:(?:\+|\-){1}[0-9]+$){1})”; then eval $( echo $1 | awk -F'[d+-]’ ‘{print “n=”$1″;s=”$2”;m=”$3}’ ); t=0; for (( c=1; c
At its best, computing technology has the potential to make our imaginations come alive. Whether simple asteroid-blasting arcade games or super-scale simulations of the distant reaches of the cosmos, our experiences of the world have… Read More »Google’s Project Tango – is it a gimmick or is it something with real promise for the future?
I recently had the good fortune to gain access to the most powerful (publicly known) computer in the UK – ARCHER. This Cray XC30 has 118,000 processing cores and is a workhorse for many large… Read More »National Computing
Problem: a program has a socket open and you want to force it to close without killing the owning process. Solution: get the file descriptor of the socket, debug the process and manually call close… Read More »How can I close a tcp/ip socket without killing the owning process?
As previously posted by Infertux here, a frozen SSH session when moving between networks is a common annoyance for anyone who works on remote servers. Thankfully there’s a quick fix (and a whole set of… Read More »How can I close a frozen SSH session?
Recently I have been using Overleaf as a replacement LaTeX editor, instead of my previous favourite LyX. It’s a nice environment to work in and the collaborative and hotdesking benefits outweighed any inertia I felt… Read More »Is Overleaf any good?