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Ilachinski's book cites Wolfram's 1980s article as a pivotal moment on top of the previous history with CA, but he goes into everything - complexity, CA, neural
by eggy 3y ago
Ilachinski's book cites Wolfram's 1980s article as a pivotal moment on top of the previous history with CA, but he goes into everything - complexity, CA, neural networks, genetic algorithms, etc. It is an amazing book, and I thoroughly enjoy his exposition and breadth of knowledge. I started with neural networks and evolutionary computing back in the late 80s. His book is a great survey book with great detail too.
The Artificial War book is pretty cool. I was into war games (board games back in the 80s), and his multi-agent approach was unique at the time and is fun to play with.
- arketyp 3y agoThanks. It's nice to hear the 80's article was acknowledged. Game theory dynamics are fascinating. I have Nowak's Evolutionary Dynamics in my shelf, in which he covers for instance spatial prisoner's dilemma modelled as cellular automata.
- eggy 3y agoI have picked up Nowak's book a few times, but I have not read it. Wolfram's new physic's book is visually appealing, and I am starting it soon. I tried making up my own rules without reference to see just how difficult it is to achieve anything similar to Conway's GoL, and it is eyeopening. I do love the variations on it where the simulations look almost like microscope vids of actual organisms. Artificial Life sims. People are getting creative in these sims, and some produce some beautiful and engaging animations.
- arketyp 3y agoThe images were always what drew me to NKS, and CA in general obviously. I don't expect to find any answers in them; for me it's a gateway to ontological mysteries. I'm quite content spending time just in wonder.