I've seen very little reporting here of work in progress, nor releases, nor projects soon to be released. This surprises me. Surely I'm not the only code...
... Good question. It could be the same, but it isn't necessarily because although normalizing for genome size is effectively dynamic, it is not necessarily ...
I have had some contact with biology, although I'm basically a code monkey with a Ph.D. I read Darwin's tome all the way through, even though I didn't know ...
... I've mentioned it before, but Philip Tucker and I are working on a new Java implementation of NEAT that we hope to opensource the first version of within...
... Well, but NEAT does employ sexual reproduction, albeit a very simplified representation of it, which is obviously a more complicated mode of reproduction...
... This is probably the key point. Even if we had an artificial evolutionary model with indirect encoding and a relatively long and complex developmental...
Hi all, With regard to the speciation debate I would like to summarise just to make things clearer and perhaps to add a few extra points - for my own benefit...
... <snip> ... Perhaps we don't mean the same thing by the term "sexual reproduction". I was referring to the phenomenon of gender, whereby the population of...
... It is a good idea to define terminology fairly precisely, since the GA literature borrows from biology, but there isn't always a nice conceptual fit. I was...
... Only partially. Perhaps the phrase "gender based reproduction" would be more descriptive of what GA and NEAT do not have. Until we are ready to model two...
... I outlined in a previous mail my simulations where I let the agents decide on what they thought was sexually attractive, and how that gave rise to...
... Mattias, I think I'm going to have to question the motives behind your experiments :) They're not purely scientific are they :) ... Disturbingly, it's...
... I know a number of people in this group are working on NEAT-related projects. I think a lot of people are lurking, or mentioned their projects before and...
Colin, Have you ever taken a look at Grammatical Evolution (http://www.grammatical-evolution.org/) From what I understand about it, GE tries to solve that...
... <snip> ... http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kstanley/neat.html#users As a result of going there and clicking around a bit, I just ordered Mat Buckland's...
I was thinking of using NEAT in the JRobots competition. Does anyone have any advice for me here? Thanks Rog __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? ...
... Hey Roger, Well, I'm certainly interested in how you could design a bot for JRobots using NEAT, but I've mostly been focusing on working on our NEAT...
This is mostly addressed to Ken, but I thought I'd also open it to the group. I just finished reading de Jong and Pollack's yet-to-be-published paper "Ideal...
... Hey Rog, JRobots is definitely the type of thing NEAT would be good at. The first thing you need to decide is which version of NEAT to use, and it looks...
... Yes I did read it, though I wasn't an official reviewer. In general, the official reviewers are anonymous. But I read it since I know Edwin de Jong and...
This topic was mentioned a couple of time in the recent thread. I just wanted to point out that natural biological evolution is directed by numerous ...
I've been playing connect 4 here: http://www.checkers.ws/board_games/connect_four_games/connect_four/connect_four.htm I had not known this game before. This...
Mitchell, I have not spoken much in this group. I am a lurker and intend on using NEAT in the future. For now, I am using simple feedforward networks making...
... You will spoil your lurker status with such well written posts! :) Fogel's book is what inspired me to work on neuroevolution. I suppose your generic game...
Mitchell, ... Thank you for the compliment. ... Yeah, Fogel was very persuasive in my looking much more closely at GA. I had essentially discounted GAs and...
Hi All, I am going to being setting up our repository. I have taken note of some of the recommendations. So I will go ahead and set something up and we can...
... Hi Rog, I'm not sure what you mean by "upload documentation to the site?" What kind of documentation do you mean? But to answer your other question, I...
