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My main idea behind creating the Genesys project was to create a network of worlds - I have full intentions to make the worlds connected in the future via inter

by mikkom 6y ago

My main idea behind creating the Genesys project was to create a network of worlds - I have full intentions to make the worlds connected in the future via internet and have functionalities to share worlds, creatures etc.. I just have too much more work to do and other more pleasant blockers like children :-)

eythian 6y ago
In my case I'm doing it because I really enjoy thinking about representations of solutions that make evolutionary operators more effective - it was the topic of my masters thesis. This is more "pure" GA than alife though, mostly because alife was a bit too open-ended to structure a hypothesis around for a thesis, at least as far as I could figure out, so I had to compromise. Multi-world with migration between them was my PgDipSci thesis :) But I also really like the results that come out of alife in the broader sense, synthetic evolution, world/environment-building, and so on. It's quite a rich interesting field that's pretty easy to dabble in with some good ideas and some programming ability. As an aside, be aware that "genesys" is already taken in the field: http://web.cs.ucla.edu/~dyer/Papers/AlifeTracker/Alife91Jefferson.html http://web.cs.ucla.edu/~dyer/Papers/AlifeTracker/Alife91Jeff... (this is the HTML of the paper the thing I linked above is based on.) This may cause google-collisions.
- mikkom 6y ago
  > As an aside, be aware that "genesys" is already taken in the field Thanks for notification, I was already aware that it was used as a brand for anoher kind of service and was pondering if I should change it but this resolved that question :-) So many thanks for that. I would be interested in reading your thesis, is it available somewhere?
  - eythian 6y ago
    http://www.kallisti.net.nz/wikifiles/RobinsStuff/ga_thesis.pdf http://www.kallisti.net.nz/wikifiles/RobinsStuff/ga_thesis.p... (multipopulation) and http://www.kallisti.net.nz/~robin/thesis.pdf http://www.kallisti.net.nz/~robin/thesis.pdf (representation) Warning, I wouldn't say they're great, but if you're having trouble sleeping... :)

by mikkom 6y ago

eythian 6y ago

In my case I'm doing it because I really enjoy thinking about representations of solutions that make evolutionary operators more effective - it was the topic of my masters thesis. This is more "pure" GA than alife though, mostly because alife was a bit too open-ended to structure a hypothesis around for a thesis, at least as far as I could figure out, so I had to compromise. Multi-world with migration between them was my PgDipSci thesis :) But I also really like the results that come out of alife in the broader sense, synthetic evolution, world/environment-building, and so on. It's quite a rich interesting field that's pretty easy to dabble in with some good ideas and some programming ability. As an aside, be aware that "genesys" is already taken in the field: http://web.cs.ucla.edu/~dyer/Papers/AlifeTracker/Alife91Jefferson.html http://web.cs.ucla.edu/~dyer/Papers/AlifeTracker/Alife91Jeff... (this is the HTML of the paper the thing I linked above is based on.) This may cause google-collisions.

mikkom 6y ago
> As an aside, be aware that "genesys" is already taken in the field Thanks for notification, I was already aware that it was used as a brand for anoher kind of service and was pondering if I should change it but this resolved that question :-) So many thanks for that. I would be interested in reading your thesis, is it available somewhere?
- eythian 6y ago
  http://www.kallisti.net.nz/wikifiles/RobinsStuff/ga_thesis.pdf http://www.kallisti.net.nz/wikifiles/RobinsStuff/ga_thesis.p... (multipopulation) and http://www.kallisti.net.nz/~robin/thesis.pdf http://www.kallisti.net.nz/~robin/thesis.pdf (representation) Warning, I wouldn't say they're great, but if you're having trouble sleeping... :)