{"id":204,"date":"2018-08-07T10:52:22","date_gmt":"2018-08-07T10:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scm.keele.ac.uk\/staff\/stan\/?p=204"},"modified":"2018-08-07T10:52:22","modified_gmt":"2018-08-07T10:52:22","slug":"stochastic-ontogenesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/machinemachines.org\/index.php\/2018\/08\/07\/stochastic-ontogenesis\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Stochastic Ontogenesis?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just returned from <a href=\"http:\/\/2018.alife.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ALIFE 2018<\/a> where I presented a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mitpressjournals.org\/doi\/pdf\/10.1162\/isal_a_00045\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">paper<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/machinemachines.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/DSC1245.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-205\" src=\"https:\/\/machinemachines.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/DSC1245-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"520\" srcset=\"https:\/\/machinemachines.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/DSC1245-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/machinemachines.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/DSC1245-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/machinemachines.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/DSC1245-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/machinemachines.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/DSC1245-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/machinemachines.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/DSC1245-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/machinemachines.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/DSC1245-1568x1045.jpg 1568w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ub_ctt_via":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"as","author_link":"https:\/\/machinemachines.org\/index.php\/author\/stan\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/machinemachines.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/machinemachines.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/machinemachines.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/machinemachines.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/machinemachines.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/machinemachines.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/machinemachines.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/machinemachines.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/machinemachines.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}