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Monthly Archives: August 2011
Evolution and the Frame Problem
“The world can be partitioned, described and learned about in an infinitely large number of ways. If you let loose in the world a truly general-purpose learning device that learns entirely without constraint, it will, by chance, set off acquiring … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Evolution, Evolutionary Psychology
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VirtualLabs in Evolutionary Game Theory
Check out Christoph Hauert’s VirtualLabs in Evolutionary Game Theory. You’ll find applets for experimentation, tutorials along with research papers associated with each of the models, and some excellent introductory material.
Posted in Computation, Evolution, Game Theory
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The Emergence of Costly Punishment
Christoph Hauert, at the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics at Harvard (update: now at British Columbia), and colleagues have a recent paper which addresses the “second order social dilemma” that arises from cooperators who may free-ride by failing to engage in … Continue reading
Programming Collective Intelligence
An outstanding recipe book for collective intelligence algorithms that spans the gamit from Pearson’s correlation and Euclidean distance measures to optimization, Bayesian filtering, neural networks, genetic algorithms, and support vector machines. Non-negative matrix factorization is thrown in to keep most … Continue reading
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Computational Models of Life
Check out the Center for Models of Life (C-MOL), a center under the Danish National Research Foundation, located at the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen. Researchers at the Center use methods from physics to develop models dealing … Continue reading
Posted in Complex Systems, Computation, Evolution
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