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Suggested topics for future FoDs How about... Who has read (or started) "On Intelligence" by palm pilot guy Jeff Hawkins? marcus adam J ...

(Notes on a lunchtime discussion between Sean Stephen, 2 July 2003) Although Wolfram identifies a class of cellular automata that generate 'complex' structure there ...

Artificial Intelligence at Victoria The artificial intelligence group carries out research in Machine Learning, Neural Networks, Cognitive Science, and Data Mining ...

Festival of Doubt FoD is an informal discussion series for topics in the general realm of artificial intelligence, agents, machine learning, complex adaptive systems ...

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list of regular doubters (to be used in populating the 'future talks' table on the mail page). this needs a good weeding... VUW grad students Person:RohitashChandra ...

Previously at the Festival of Doubt 2008 When Who Topic 18 Dec 2008 Person:KouroshNeshatian In Search of Intelligent Aliens : On Scalability ...

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Social evolution reading group Over the summer of 2008 2009 we looked into some social evolution ideas from a mathematical perspective. The first few were based on ...

Keith says: To make things more entertaining, to me at least, I thought we would try introducing some "rules" about who has the right to speak. You've heard of Robert ...

Stag Hunt A page for ideas about modeling signalling in the stag hunt game. (Anna can you edit this okay? Use the "raw edit" rather than "edit" as the latter actually ...

big sex questions This is (a) my list of "why is it like this?" questions, (b) an attempt to trigger VUW's `websense' filter by using the s word lots on one page ...

The basic paper is here: Gaussian processes to optimize expensive functions. Musings, after talking with Christopher Lee Johnson today %$ x $% is a point in ...

For about 30 hours each in 2003 we pawed over A New Kind Of Science (ANKoS) by Stephen Wolfram http://homepages.ecs.vuw.ac.nz/~marcus/pics/wolfie.jpg http://homepages ...

FoD: what to do If you're lucky enough to find yourself hosting this week's Festival here's what you do... The way it works is when it's "your week" you get to organise ...

I'd like to talk about how much sense it might make to apply concepts of social network analysis (SNA) to software engineering. Among other things, social network ...

Extreme Executive Summaries... (just prettiness but anyway here goes): Scaling laws in biology Hierarchical branching systems Energy dissipation ...

http://homepages.ecs.vuw.ac.nz/~marcus/pics/circularCA.jpg The Principle of Computational Equivalence The notion of universal computation places an upper limit ...

The notion of computation Here's a not so digestable synopsis of the points in this chapter Tim Field Computation as a Framework a program is something ...

Fundamental physics of chapter 9 (pdf) Sean Devine . http://homepages.ecs.vuw.ac.nz/~marcus/pics/flat3body.jpg back to Wolframania

Implications for everyday systems Covering: Natural systems and the advantages of modeling them algorithmically. Note: This is a paraphrased summary of the chapter ...

mechanisms in programs and nature Salient points / claims: there are 3 mechanisms for generating randomness: from the environment (i.e. get it from some ...

http://homepages.ecs.vuw.ac.nz/~marcus/pics/circularCA.jpg The world of simple programs Salient points: If a CA is too simple the behaviour is boring (static ...

Here's a list of interested parties for anouncement of Festival of Doubt discussions cut and paste this into your mailer to send us something. Move your own name ...

PersonTitle:MarcusFrean my official VUW homepage Main/MarcusFrean my unofficial homepage (currently more informative).

Honest Signals FIRST, have a look at this lovely intro by Carl Bergstrom great stuff: http://octavia.zoology.washington.edu/handicap/honest intro 01.html . Incidentally ...

Symbolic systems often assume a 'vision' system that maps symbols to objects in the real world. safe is this assumption and how exactly can it be implemented? We consider ...

Fisher's run away sexual selection process is a mechanism Fisher put forward to answer one of the big sex questions (go to the end) the apparently excessive ...

Various folks with an interest in complex adaptive systems and machine learning have self organised into an emergent structure that spontaneously congeals for an informal ...

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The FoD, Reanimated We had a discussion about re starting the festival: Seminars aren't discussions. Maybe it's useful to think of two types of informal presentations ...

For all enlightenment issues concerning Joseph see his homepage.

Jeff is fishy: http://www.victoria.ac.nz/sbs/staff/staff academic/shimajeff/jeff shima.aspx

Hi all. Have you ever wondered how the machines in The Matrix worked,.. you know, the ones that flew around with the snakey appendiges. Well, come to the talk to find ...

Consider two alleles, A and B. Denote the density of A by %$ \rho $%. We have a 2 by 2 payoff matrix %$V(\mathrm{self} \mathrm{other}) $% a 2 by 2 matrix of ...

Dirk Derom is a grad student in psychology at VUW who is creating a meta analysis tool for the cognitive sciences Abstract: Metaneva ( http://metaneva.org) tries ...

Discussion on the paper : Bhaskar, H. and Mihaylova, L. and Maskell, S. (2008) POPULATION BASED PARTICLE FILTERING . In: The Institution of Engineering and Technology ...

Technological Singularity The technological singularity is the idea that when machines become more intelligent than humans, they will be able to augment themselves ...