Ken, I tested networks that output desired angles instead of angular velocities using the same modular setup described in my GECCO paper. The hip joints of the...
Vinod, thanks very much for sharing that result. It's useful to know things like that and it helps us narrow down what works and does not work in this type of...
Hello Vinod- Thank you for your answer. I am still a little confused about something you said, and I hope you don't mind if I try to clarify things. Basically,...
For physics simulation, I use OPAL (http://opal.sourceforge.net/), an abstraction layer on top of ODE. I used their servo motor implementation for controlling...
Jeff, My understanding is that the term "coupled cell system" is used to describe systems whose behavior can be expressed mathematically as a system of ODEs...
Hello Vinod- Thanks for the informative response. I understand it all now. I do not currently have such a visualization tool, but I have wanted to build one...
I saw this on the GECCO web page and thought it was interesting. I note GECCO as 7th. ECAL also made the list. AAAI was number one (congrats to Jason and Ken...
GECCO does rank well in this list. It's something recruiting or tenure committees might not be aware of, so it's good information to have documented. It's...
Jeff, You may want to take a look at the Quad from crustcrawler.com. It does not have a simulation for it, but I have one of these and use it often. It would ...
Hello Erik- Thanks for the suggestion. I have read that it takes a lot of work to make a simulator accurate. My guess is that without that substantial...
Jeff, Wow. Did you see the price for Nao ($15,000)? I assume if you are going to keep research in the realm of a simulated environment, that is not relevant. ...
... I did see that. But I read somewhere else that they were about to come out with one around 3-4k. That's still a lot, but at least the price is coming down....
Hi Jeff, Did you notice that Caddie is also a part of the new gmail autopilot feature? Check it out here: http://mail.google.com/mail/help/autopilot/index.html...
1st April anybody ? Have you guys seen the google home page today? http://www.google. com/ Look for the CADIE link: If it is no longer on the home page, here...
Hum, or maybe the association of "evolutionary computation", "neural networks" and a few other related keywords in the same sentence tend to trigger the...
As Jack Tramiel from Commodore said way back in the '80s (paraphrased), "I don't care what the press says about me, good or bad. As long as they are saying...
Exactly. I think it's pretty cool that for their April Fool's joke they chose neuroevolution as the tech that might produce the first sentient AI program. :-) ...
"Cornell University computer scientists Michael Schmidt and Hod Lipson devised an algorithm that will deduce laws about the motion of a nonlinear dynamical...
Amazing what you can do with some symbolic regression and good publicity skills. The technique's been around for some 20 years, after all. Not that I in any...
Our new paper, which will appear at GECCO this summer, explores the idea that novelty search is a potentially effective tool for evolving neural networks that...
Hi all, I'm posting this link because although it's not about NEAT I think it's sufficiently interesting to anyone doing work with neural nets to warrant a...
Colin, thanks for the link. Actually, I'd seen this before and it is interesting. However, I still think something significant is missing: Like almost any...
But the only reason they're now incomprehensible scrambles of dots from a human perspective is because you and I haven't grown up with the concept of those...
Thomas, that's an interesting hypothesis that we would have no trouble with arbitrary dot patterns if we had grown up with them. That hypothesis can't be...
