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The Theory of Relativity
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The Artificial Being Project Updated
The Artificial Being Project has been updated. Check it out at: http://www.paraschopra.com/projects/ai-being/ai-being.pdf ...
Democracy as a paradigm for Artificial Intelligence
I have lately realized that Artificial Intelligence can be best achieved if it is modeled on democracy. Democracy works in a decentralized manner and all the decisions it makes go through rigorous debate. The best of all, there is no single entity respon...
Search strategy in a Random Grid
Suppose we have a MxN grid with each cell having a particular (random) number. Also suppose that you are an organism capable of moving one cell left/right/up/down and accessing the number on the cell you are presently standing on. Moving takes away X uni...
Self Organizing Maps in Python
Self-Organizing Maps is a form of machine learning technique which employs unsupervised learning. It means that you don't need to explicitly tell the SOM about what to learn in the input data. It automatically learns ...
Digital Evolution
Have you heard of the names [URL=http://www.his.atr.jp/~ray/tierra/]Tierra[/URL], [URL=http://dllab.caltech.edu/avida/]Avida[/URL] or [URL=http://www.greythumb.org/twiki/bin/view/GreyThumb/Nanopond]Nanopond[/URL]? If you are an evolutionary biologist (or...
Virtual (Molecular) Biology Experiments
Here at IISc, I have realised that the molecular biology experiments (with E. coli) take a lot of time to occur. You prepare a strain, incubate it, run gels, etc. All of these things take time, and I am talking of a lot of time.
How nice would it ...
Get-A-Life: How true is comparison of Artificial Life with the real one?
It is an excellent article which discusses that evolution is inherent in the universe (as demonstrated by "hyperreal" universes). It discusses Tierra, Biomorphs, Genetic Programming, SimEarth, Game of Life, etc. Read it if you care about evolution. ...
Genetic Programming gets a patent
Hey, see this interesting profile of the life of pioneer John Koza and his [I]Invention Machine[/I]. [URL=http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/0e13af26862ba010vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html]Click here[/URL] to read it. ...