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Emails from people discovering Biota for the first time, the Podcast is a great place to start. A lot of audio!
Call-In Number
(646) 200-0640
Next Episodes
Friday 18 April, 8pm Pacific - Bridging the Gap - Unifying Industry, Academia and Hobbyist ALife
Greythumb News
GreyThumb Boston
CDs out
ALIFE XI will get CDs also
Lots of Feedback from the Previous Show
A lot of opinion came in
Requests for participants
General questions
- Could a true open source (as in open to the outside world) model work for Simudyne?
- What happens to the value of contributed intellectual property in the Simudyne model?
- How can you assess if you want to join based on an opaque information model? How does numbers of members pollute the wealth generation model?
- What about longterm research? If clients are paying for time and this creates the development priority, doesn't this preclude the generation of anything that will be longterm productive because the model isn't strategically designed for that kind of development? Does the current model also eliminate the benefit for clients becoming longterm?
Genetic Programming book suggestion from Matt Powell
Tom, thought you might find this interesting as it applies to some of the things you've discussed on the podcast. I've just started reading;
A Field Guide to Genetic Programming
which was published free online with a creative commons license! You can read more about it at
http://www.gp-field-guide.org.uk/
I was sold as soon as I read this paragraph in the preface:
Many books have been written which describe aspects of GP. Some provide general introductions to the field as a whole. However, no new introductory book on GP has been produced in the last decade, and anyone wanting to learn about GP is forced to map the terrain painfully on their own. This book attempts to fill that gap, by providing a modern field guide to GP for both newcomers and old-timers.
I would love to hear from the authors on the podcast if possible.
BTW, I'm Matt who pops up in the chat every once in a while.
Scott Schafer's Critters on YouTube
We all start somewhere. I started with agar simulations before Noble Ape. More importantly, you are using YouTube to reach users which is more advanced than what I have done todate!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuWJ1ZiwO2g
Biota Live Correspondence Book GiveAway
Email in topics for future podcasts, get a book if we use the topic.
tom at nobleape dot com
That simple.
- the Ancestor's Tale, Richard Dawkins
- iWoz, Steve Wozniak and Gina Smith
- Ever Since Darwin, Stephen J. Gould
- Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy
First iTunes Review Complains
The first iTunes reviews says the audio quality has deteriorated. True, BlogTalkRadio. Quantity not audio quality.
Other listeners, please contribute reviews to iTunes!
Remember Call-In Number
(646) 200-0640
Questions for this week
Prefacing Email
Submitted by Adam Ierymenko
I used to wonder why people like Karl Sims, Stephen Wolfram, etc. were so unapproachable. It seems like the people doing real and mature things in the tech industry are almost impossible to talk to. We ve tried to get folks like Karl to come and give talks at Grey Thumb to no avail for example, despite the fact that his office is literally two or three blocks from where we meet in Cambridge. Likewise for the folks at Icosystem and other alife/complexity/simulation related companies in the Boston area.
I don t really wonder that anymore, since I ve learned that if you have even the tiniest amount of value attached to yourself -- be it intellectual property, name recognition, a site that gets lots of hits, or even a modicum of academic credibility -- you have to be careful about what you say, who you associate with, and what you endorse. If you have anything of value, being totally open about it is like walking through a bad neighborhood dressed to the hilt. You re going to attract attention, and much of it is not going to be nice.
Is there going to be an artificial life secret sauce? Some proprietary information that will be of value in the field? If so where will it come from? Does it already exist?
Open versus Closed
Is there a midpoint or are they polarizing philosophies?
Corporate websites with no information
Apple versus Microsoft in terms of Secret Cool versus Open Delays
Does the Secret Sauce already exist?
Karl Sims
What would our lives be like if artificial life was a driving force in technology now?
Role of Academia
Exciting emails on divergent directions.
How to assess?
Communication and research aren't always resolvable.
