Then we could run it in about 50 atoms worth of space. That is assuming that we could build the smallest state machine possible in that amount of space and then actually wire it up to some tiny interface. The smallest possible universal state machine was proven to exist a couple days ago by Alex [...]
What happens when you work a full time job, get lots of overtime at work and have a major deadline in your thesis work that requires you to code your butt off? You get a breakdown in the amount of cool blog posts you get to put up. I am working out some loose ends [...]
I got this from Slashdot a couple days ago and I wanted to share it. When you are playing a real time strategy game (or any video game for that matter) the artificial intelligence you are playing against is usually a form of rule based system. The AI is given large amounts of game information, [...]
I hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving weekend. I enjoyed two dinners, one on Sunday and one on Monday. I have many leftovers. I also spent a lot of time working on my implementation of NEAT into Picoevo. It is a very intricate process integrating NEAT into an evolutionary systems like Picoevo. It wasn’t really [...]
Simbad is the 3D robot simulator I am using for my autonomous agent research. This is just a brief look at the simbad interface and how you can interact with the simulation environment. We won’t even peek at the really cool features, like its ease of use or potential for Evolutionary Artificial Neural Network research! [...]
When I really started working on my research several months ago, I started bringing environments together and testing various technologies out and trying to find the right combination of tools for my work. I could have written my own completely but that would have taken far more time and there’s no need to reinvent the [...]
I don’t really know what I will be writing here. I decided I would start to blog about my research and the various nifty problems I encounter every time I try something new. Maybe I will just talk about that, maybe I will talk about other things. If you are reading this and I haven’t [...]