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Mechanisms of analysis and perception Before the discoveries in this book, one might have thought that all perceptual processes were, in some sense, complex, and ...

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 ...

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

http://homepages.ecs.vuw.ac.nz/~marcus/pics/circularCA.jpg The crucial experiment Salient points: 4 types of behaviour in simple cellular automata: regular ...

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 ...

Systems based on numbers Salient points: lots of 'simple' sequences of numbers look 'complex' if you write them in binary and draw them... the shift map ...

Two dimensions and beyond Salient points: 2D systems are pretty much like the 1D ones networks examples are given where each node has 2 outgoing links ...

Starting from Randomness An old kind of concept...? Wolfram describes a CA classification with four classes: Class 1 Starting from random initial conditions ...

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

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

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

Poems inspired by ANKoS Before the discoveries in this book One might have thought But instead one finds And indeed in a sense This is what I have shown ...

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 ...

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 ...

Architectures That Are Self Organized and Complex: From Morphogenesis to Engineering Self organized physical systems generally form simple random patterns, while complicated ...

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

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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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

kourosh 15 Dec 2008 Most of the existing definitions for an intelligent agent are around thinking/acting humanly/rationally. These definitions are not very scalable ...

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

For all enlightenment issues concerning Joseph see his homepage.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

Price's Equation Price 1972.pdf: Price (1972) "Fisher's 'fundamental theorem' made clear" Gardner 2008.pdf: Gardner (2008) "The Price Equation" GardnerWestBarton ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

Suggestions for Social Evolution Reading Group topics How about... chapter X of Prof Y's fab book on Z. I, YOUR NAME HERE, will distribute the PDF a week ahead ...

(a.k.a. "the search for momentum"). I like this one, as you can say things like "I'll see YOU at the Consequences". It has a certain Chuck Norrisness about it. marcus ...

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STARTLIST abstractions, action potentials, actions, agents, algebras, algorithms, analogies, analysis, approximations, architectures, arrays, artificial life, asymmetry ...

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The (random) talk relates to GPUs: A system I have been wanting to build involves the storing of the rules of a GP system in a texture. Think of storing the weights ...

I want to muse about a spectrum of possiblepayoff matrices: other marcus 06 Jan 2009

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...