shakedown.social is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
A community for live music fans with roots in the jam scene. Shakedown Social is run by a team of volunteers (led by @clifff and @sethadam1) and funded by donations.

Administered by:

Server stats:

240
active users

#evolvability

0 posts0 participants0 posts today

Later this month, I’m going to present my first academic paper at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computing Conference (GECCO) in Melbourne, Australia. I’ll share the full paper once it’s officially published. For now, I wrote a blog post about the journey from experiment to paper, what this work means to me, and where I hope to go from here. If you’re curious about what the heck I’m actually doing with this Evolutionary Computation stuff, check it out!

thinkingwithnate.wordpress.com

Thinking with Nate · Why the Game of Life Paper?(This month’s image is a slime mold growing on a log. It grows in a branching network of banana-yellow tendrils, some of which are engulfing plant debris they encountered. Source) Later this month,…

Time for a new #introduction

I'm a #ComputerScience #PhD candidate at the #University of #Vermont (#UVM). There, I'm doing #AI and #ALife #research with Josh Bongard and many others. Themes include #evolution, #evolvability, innate #intelligence, #cells, #bodies, and #endosymbiosis.

I believe #science should be open and accessible, so I write about my ideas on a #Wordpress #blog, review relevant #books on #Goodreads, and publish my source code on #Github (links in my profile).

I'm passionate about #diversity, #socialjustice, #sustainability, #ethics, #philosophy, and all things #tech. In my personal life, I love #food, #cooking, #reading, #yoga, #hiking, #art, and #StarTrek.

I worked for many years on #Google #Search as a #software #engineer, #techlead, and #manager. I used to be proud of that, but lately I have concerns.

My favorite #programming language is #Python, but I know many more, and lately have been quite enjoying #CUDA #GPU programming in #cplusplus.