odd quanta
Just finished reading ‘A Shortcut through Time’, by George Johnson, a popular-scientific book explaining some of the ideas behind quantum computing. I thought…
Monthly Archives: February 2009
cardiac rhythms
I’ve been trying out another simulation of a reaction-diffusion system, this time the FitzHugh-Nagumo model. It models the way waves travel through certain…
philip k. dick
In order to plug a hole in my erudition I started reading some of Philip K. Dick‘s books. “Time Out of Joint” (1959)…
reaction-diffusion
I’m now experimenting with a simple reaction-diffusion system, inspired by Alan Turing. Still needs a lot of tweaking.…
singularity@home
Today I saw a small network actually learn something.
A small step for everybody else, but a bigger step for me.…
flat learning curve
I am trying to stimulate a system to figure out its own way of how to behave;
for now, lots of activity, but…
pict and starting work on #47
very intriguing picture, from: MacKay, D. J. C. and Miller, K. D. (1990),
“Analysis of Linsker’s simulation of Hebbian rules”, Neural Computation, 2:173-187.…