Inria 🇫🇷 master internship 2023 on Lenia x machine learning research is open, apply now! Based on past projects, we will continue to train/evolve Lenia creatures for energy seeking, interactions, memory, learning, open-endedness, etc. 1/4 More info: https://t.co/3ddxtyjq2A

Complexity's core recipe: nonlinearity + time. High-D space is optional. When modeling high dimensions are not preferred because the noise threshold is often too low, burying the signal. I would prefer hunting for the emergent, low-D manifold where the "meaningful surprise" of

Fish keratocytes isolated from a fish scale crawling around. Technique: DIC microscopy. #CellBiology. Another #NikonSmallWorldReject

Now we start “Artificial”: Life, Intelligence,Planet Convergence big Artificialization In Odaiba

70 pages paper about self-replication 🤩 by @JordanCotler @HudcovaBarbora @HonglerClement

My little book on Schrödinger's famous classic 'What Is Life?' is out today! It offers the most comprehensive analysis ever undertaken of the book's origins, reception, impact, and legacy. Please share; it is free to download for the next 2 weeks!

After @ALifeConf, gotta have some eki bento and good read about complexity on the train back home.

計算機上で動く人工生命 Lenia を生み出した Bert Chan 氏。その Bert Chan 氏と偶然話す機会があった。そのときに Bert Chan 氏の口から「シミュレーションは面白いけど，現実の問題解決の役には立たない」という言葉を聞いた。Lenia

Yeah, I am as excited as the next guy about creating an “AI scientist”, but I know all too well that for decades intelligence has not been the main bottleneck for creating better and more advanced scientific breakthroughs. We’ve been churning out more science PhDs than we knew

🎉 Book Launch Event: "Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned" (目標という幻想) Join authors Kenneth O. Stanley @kenneth0stanley & Joel Lehman in Tokyo! 📅 Oct 18 (Sat) 14:00-16:00 📍 Design Hub, Roppongi 🎤 Moderated by Madoka Sawa @madoka510 (former Microsoft) Exploring AI, ALife &

The new ALife institute is open now. !!

Friends in Tokyo: you’re all very welcome to the opening of our new exhibition ‘Synthetic Natures’ this 4th of Oct 🩵 Very excited to finally share about this project we’ve been working on for the past months as @entangledothers / @feileacan_net

What I found amazing is that MaCE is comparable to "Liquid Lenia" -- something I've been cooking around. The differences are in the diffusion term, and that it's derived from @zzznah's Particle Lenia (n→∞). Convergeny evolution FTW! https://t.co/SNdUXv9kwN

I've reimplemented MaCE Lenia in JAX, just 3 lines change from the original Lenia algorithm. It contains the parameters that need to reproduce the butterfly 🦋

MaCE is an elegant way to have mass conservation in cellular automata. Just do softmax of a field (here Lenia's growth) and redistribute mass. Macroscopically, the authors proved that it's equivalent to advection-diffusion in fluid dynamics, so there's some actual physics here!

A butterfly is born 🦋 This is a new type of CA called "MaCE Lenia", by @VassPapas & E Guichard. arXiv paper: https://t.co/uYURjFJYdM They'll have a poster & demo at @ALifeConf, (I will also have a booth nearby). Please come to visit us at Posters + Public Expo (Tue 5-8pm)!

i keep thinking about this our cells have no awareness that they're part of a larger consciousness does this apply to us as well there's a larger consciousness that we're a part of but we as its individual cells only perceive ourselves and our immediate surroundings

The most complex systems are rooted in deep simplicity. Thread breaking down this astounding book and idea:

We're excited to announce final program of the @ALifeConf SONI session which hosting a panel discussion with @blaiseaguera, @risi1979, @emilyldolson & @SidneyPontesF on 'Self-Organisation: a new paradigm of intelligence?' Full program https://t.co/XXXeIE3keX See you in Kyoto ⛩️

Be part of the next generation of virtual creatures: Enter the 2025 Virtual Creatures Competition (VCC)! Held at #ALIFE2025, the #VCC is an annual competition to showcase recent research in the field of artificial life. Judges and prizes to be announced soon. ⬇️⬇️

And here are the accepted contributions to the Special Session #TheDistributedCiphers at @ALifeConf: Details: https://t.co/qcwzeCC6Jm See you in Kyoto 🇯🇵