ross goes to canada

see it here

a nice article over at Kevin Kelly’s site

is absolutely breathtaking… now I want to see the movie

Something I worked on during biology class– unfinished, ambiguous, and inefficient… but I still think that it is an interesting problem.

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A few months after I wrote up my idea ( and completely unconnected ), I was invited to participate in a user-study testing out an AI system that tried to automatically create meaningful picture “sentences” out of text given to it.  That’s a very very difficult and interesting problem.  I have a few pictures from the study somewhere that I’ll try to post if/when I find them.

Anyways, busy busy busy and “busy busy busy”

instructions here

wiki page here

Awhile ago I wrote a simple little program that simulates the evolution of a species ( or sequence of letters in this case ) through sexual or asexual reproduction and mutation governed by natural selection. I only have a basic understanding of evolution but I tried to make the simulation somewhat realistic ( yeah right ) while trying to make the computational time reasonably brief.

At one point the program was complete, but then I decided to make a few more changes.  Right now the program is in something of a ( not quite working ) transitional form.  

If you’re interested you can get the admittedly rather messy java code for the program here:

evolve

organism

• “Do you know where Burrard Street is?”
• “It’s about 10 meters forward”

I’m 2 for 6– an all-time high

some great music from a band that sounds like you should have heard of them already