Have had very little time progress project work due to 4 main factors.
Wife’s end of PHD and upcoming viva.
half term – combined with the above
ATC course has continual drip of deadlines that are taking up all my available time. Which is why I’m writing this blog thing instead of doing my reading/study/project/paper-writing.
As a very non-confessional person [...]
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Have been looking at the themes for the ALife XI conference. The main gist seems to be towards parallels with biology, such as consciousness rather than robotics or genetic algorithms. Apparently the former field used to be an aLife area but became so mainstream that it became its own field with conferences.
According to Inman Harvey, [...]
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Have contacted Inman Harvey to follow up the idea of publication.
He has proposed joint paper (him as 2nd author) to Alife XI Conference in August (Southampton Uni).
I have agreed to go for this although the submission deadline is very tight.
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Received project feedback from Inman Harvey.
Very pleased with comments:-
“This is a lovely example of how one can do a small piece of genuine research as an Alife assessment.
I think this is original, significant and publishable.”
“Very well designed experiments, proper thought gone into controls and sufficient runs for statisitcal significance. Results are important and well presented”.
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