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The Fitness Hypothesis
The Fitness Hypothesis
Originally published at http://thescinder.com/2021/07/12/the-fitness-hypothesis/ on July 12, 2021.
the Scinder
Jul 12, 2021
Introduction to Life and Other Pasttimes
Introduction to Life and Other Pasttimes
Originally published at http://thescinder.com on February 16, 2021.
the Scinder
Feb 16, 2021
Evaluating Open-Ended Exploration and Creation
Evaluating Open-Ended Exploration and Creation
I’ve been working on a reinforcement learning (RL) environment for machine exploration and creativity using Life-like cellular automata…
Rive Sunder
Feb 11, 2021
Playing Pokemon Grow with Differentiable Cellular Automata
Playing Pokemon Grow with Differentiable Cellular Automata
Look back to the 1980s and you’ll find that, alongside a vibrant wave of connectionism that laid the foundations for the deep learning…
Rive Sunder
Dec 18, 2020
Evolving Biophysics for Fun(damental Research) and Profit
Evolving Biophysics for Fun(damental Research) and Profit
Improving the Scoring Function for Protein-Ligand Docking with Evolutionary Reinforcement Learning
Rive Sunder
Oct 19, 2020
What Good is a GPT-3?
What Good is a GPT-3?
As the world teeters on the cusp of real progress in understanding intelligence, and real utility in artificial intelligence, a quote from…
the Scinder
Jul 27, 2020
3 Ideas for Dealing with the Consequences of Overpopulation (from Science Fiction)
3 Ideas for Dealing with the Consequences of Overpopulation (from Science Fiction)
Despite overpopulation being a taboo topic these days, population pressure was a mainstream concern as recently as the latter half of the…
the Scinder
Jul 11, 2020
The RL Contest: Threadripper vs. the Cloud, Setup and Benchmarks
The RL Contest: Threadripper vs. the Cloud, Setup and Benchmarks
This is the second in a series of posts on how it’s possible to do interesting and meaningful work in reinforcement or evolutionary…
Rive Sunder
Apr 16, 2020
Why Don’t You Build a RL Computer?
Why Don’t You Build a RL Computer?
Deep evolutionary and reinforcement learning algorithms are two of the most promising paths to understanding and developing general…
Rive Sunder
Apr 3, 2020
Rendering Deepmind’s Predicted Protein Structures for Novel Coronavirus 2019 (Stereo Anaglyphs)
Rendering Deepmind’s Predicted Protein Structures for Novel Coronavirus 2019 (Stereo Anaglyphs)
I visualized predicted protein structures from the novel 2019 coronavirus. The structures are the latest from Deepmind’s AlphaFold, the…
the Scinder
Mar 17, 2020
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