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In @crosslabstokyo talk, Tyrell showed a bunch of examples of complex systems that depend (feed) on discretization, including Lenia, SmoothLife, Neural CA, reaction-diffusion systems, and Lorentz attractor!
You're invited to join me for a Cross Roads talk next week, hosted by Cross Labs in Kyoto and streaming at youtube.com/watch?v=wiZ6mYkK….
I'll be talking about discretization and self-organization in cellular automata and similar systems.
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In @ALifeConf & @GeccoConf this week, @RiveSunder (Q T Davis, w/ @DoctorJosh) singlehandedly presented 3 works (!) about Lenia.
He showed a new Lenia variant with 2 growth terms, the relationship between discrete & continuous CA, and that step size is surprisingly important.
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Exploring patterns in "Flow Lenia" with mass conservation. Seems like it's switching between different scales? (Joint project with @FlowersINRIA)
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The 3rd of our 3 upcoming @GeccoConf pubs:
@csgrasso10 shows that Neural Cellular Automata evolved to homeostat and be empowered* are better at homeostasis than NCAs evolved only to homeostat.
*cells can influence other cells distant in space and time
arxiv.org/abs/2205.06771
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Our 2nd of 3 @GeccoConf papers:
Evolving metamaterials to exhibit "computational superposition":
Red acts like AND and XOR at the same time...
...but at different frequencies.
Green and blue particles are inputs.
Vibration=1; no vibration=0.
arxiv.org/abs/2204.08651
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The first of our three @GeccoConf publications:
Evolving continuous cellular automata to yield stable motile patterns.
By lab member @RiveSunder.
arxiv.org/abs/2204.07541
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I also spoke with public defenders about how they argue cases where they suspect police used facial recognition and the litigation strategies they apply to try to compel disclosure of info about the technology and its use in criminal investigations wired.com/story/hidden-role-…
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Can we develop more robust image recognition systems? Maybe by combining ideas from deep learning and collective intelligence? Come join our group as a postdoc and let's find out!
candidate.hr-manager.net/App…
Application Deadline: November 18th
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PennyLane v0.18 is out of the oven! ♨️🔥
Piping hot features like
-Major updates to lightning.qubit ⚡
-@PyTorch quantum simulator 🔦
-Superpowered Hamiltonians 💪
-Beefed-up Rotosolve optimizer 🌪️
-Custom batch & gradient transforms 🍪
And much more!
pennylane.ai/blog/2021/09/pe…
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We know you've been waiting excitedly, so now finally, here are the proceedings for CoG 2021! ieee-cog.org/2021/index.html…
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Finally stepped down from organising the #Neurips4creativity workshop after 4 years😬but happy that @dribnet @hardmaru @mattierialgirl @smnh_azadi @daphneipp @Lialialiacole are continuing the event this year 🎉🎉
Submissions open until September 17th 👇
This year is the 5th year for our NeurIPS Workshop on Machine Learning for Creativity and Design 🖍️🎊
Submit your papers and artwork by September 17th❗
neuripscreativityworkshop.gi…
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Here is the second painting of the mini-series "rats". This one is titled "Time, or DOI:10.1038/s41586-020-2975-4" - It is inspired by research by @davidasinclair's team. The painting show three generation of rats "united" by their epigenetic signature. [1/3] #sciart #scicomm
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Worth reading: @HRoitblat critiques DeepMind's "Reward is Enough" paper, points out circularity in their argument. bdtechtalks.com/2021/07/07/a… @bendee983
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VQGAN + CLIP "matte painting of the shire at dusk; trending on artstation; hyper realistic, ray tracing, fine detail, ultra settings" + 3D photo inpainting
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First painting of a mini-series about some of my favorite studies involving rats. This was inspired by 2015 Scientific Report by @MiguelNicolelis and Miguel Pais-Vieira.
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Our latest article in the selforg Distill thread is live! We use adversarial attacks to hijack our pretrained NCA in digit classification and pattern formation. With 2 brand new demos. w/ @zzznah @eyvindn @drmichaellevin distill.pub/selforg/2021/adv… 1/N
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The most incredible reproduction sequence I've seen in a cellular automaton - orbs in groups of three or more start to follow each other, death-spiraling inwards until they explode outwards releasing many more!
#CellularAutomata #MNCA #shaders #generative #alife #complexity
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In the USA, police have used facial recognition to identify (often Black) protesters in several places 3/
NYC: theverge.com/2020/8/18/21373…
Baltimore: theverge.com/2016/10/11/1324…
South Carolina: thestate.com/news/local/crim…
Miami: nbcmiami.com/investigations/…
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You can join in with our #chalkdust13 launch celebrations by doing your own cellular automata inspired art. We'll be sending Chalkdust T-shirts to the creators of some of our favourites. chalkdustmagazine.com/blog/i…





























