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A collection of interviews, conference lectures and conversations with artificial life developers, academics and users.
Host/Contact: Tom Barbalet
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A Discussion With Imy Khan - Hiroki! [August 13, 2023]
Tom welcomes back Imy Khan to talk about his time in Japan.
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A Discussion With Steve Grand [July 22, 2023]
Tom welcomes back Steve Grand to talk about Grandroids amongst other things.
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A Discussion With Imy Khan - Music and Roleplaying Games [July 16, 2023]
Tom welcomes back Imy Khan to talk about music and roleplaying games.
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Jeffrey Ventrella: Walkers and War [July 8, 2023]
Tom welcomes back on Jeffrey Ventrella to discuss a number of ideas.
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A Discussion With Imy Khan - Introductions [June 24, 2023]
Tom welcomes on Imy Khan to talk about their various projects.
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A New Philosophy of the Mind with Jeffrey Ventrella [April 30, 2023]
Tom welcomes back on Jeffrey Ventrella to discuss a number of ideas.
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A New Biota with Bruce Damer [April 22, 2023]
Tom welcomes back on Dr. Bruce Damer to discuss a number of ideas.
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Anti-Peacocking [January 21, 2020]
Anton hit a roadblock with the Moveable Feast Machine due to some GPU compiler issues. Tom has been working on a project called libdeep to answer some interesting questions about how to make software that is useful for a variety of folks. They digress into the Roomba. How good is machine learning and why hasn't artificial life done just as well? What is still yet to be found useful in the field. Anton wants to understand more about the ApeSDK. Tom introduces Ecosim (after the recording Tom provided the source to Anton).
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Nerd Obsessive Enterprises [August 9, 2019]
Anton has been porting Movable Feast Machine to the GPU. They discuss work waivers. Tom discusses what an iPhone app means. How about Patreon? Anton and Tom finish the podcast talking about Kickstarters too.
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Creating the Surroundings [August 5, 2019]
Tom welcomes back on Dr. Bruce Damer. Tom asks for Bruce's thoughts on the Wikipedia situation. Bruce talks about the Biota Institute in understanding the origin of life and a new company, Epsilonics. They discuss Tom Ray's criticism of artificial life for doing open ended simulation. What has Deepak Chopra provided in feedback to Bruce? Tom raises the idea that emergent complexity is the panacea for the media-centric world. Bruce talks about his responsibility to the issues impacting the planet.
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Galapagotchi with Gerald de Jong [July 6, 2019]
Gerald de Jong has been in and out of creating simulations over the past eight years but he's returned to work on Galapagotchi. Tom tries very hard to create distinctions between springs and tensegrity structures but Gerald isn't having any of it. Gerald gives a definition of Galapagotchi. How have Gerald's thoughts changed about artificial life in the past eight years? What's the distinction between water and land?
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Moveable Fiesta [June 28, 2019]
Tom welcomes on Professor David Ackley who introduces his interests in artificial life and how he developed Evolutionary Reinforcement Learning. Can this work map back into biology? What does it take to get this kind of cross disciplinary collaboration? Tom asks about Professor Ackley's motivation to put so much information on YouTube. How is this different to publicly accessible papers? Does it bring students to the field? Professor Ackley talks about the vision of a new computer architecture: the Moveable Feast Machine. Tom asks about Anton's work with a GPU-based Moveable Feast Machine. Is there a possibility to get slightly more complex artificial life running on the Moveable Feast Machine? Listen in to find out.
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Veritable Feast [June 7, 2019]
Anton returns to talk about Lenia, David H. Ackley's Movable Feast Machine. Tom and Anton do a deep dive into the many flavors of parallelism Tom has used with Noble Ape. Anton also likes GPU programming. If you would like to be on a Biota podcast, please get in contact with Tom - barbalet at the email address noted.
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GenePool Revisited [May 25, 2019]
Tom Barbalet welcomes back Jeffrey Ventrella to talk about his ongoing projects, GenePool and Wiggle Planet, with longtime co-developer, Brian Dodd. They talk about open source and Jeffrey's other projects: a book on fractal curves and taking artificial life to the traditional art world.
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Surviving Notability, Simulation as a Service and Self-Replicating Steam Engines [May 19, 2019]
Tom Barbalet welcomes back Tim Taylor to talk about how we communicate on the field of artificial life. They also discuss Tim's ideas on simulation as a service and Tim's new book on self-replicating machine discussions through history.
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Deletions, Simulation as a Service, ApeScript and the Curse [May 13, 2019]
Tom Barbalet talks with Anton Mikhailov on a variety of topics. Will they continue the podcast after the meeting? Time will tell.
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The Secret Life of Simulators and Bees [April 26, 2019]
Tom Barbalet talks with Anton Mikhailov about his bee simulation, moving it open source and some of the historical pitfalls in making artificial life your day job. If you would like to ask further questions and topics for Anton and Tom, please email barbalet at gmail dot com. We'd really appreciate the topics and feedback.
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Restarting the Biota Podcast [January 26, 2019]
Tom Barbalet is interested in restarting the podcast but he needs your help. barbalet at gmail dot com for more!
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Biota Interview: Stephan Rafler on Smoothlife [October 20, 2012]
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Biota Special: Dr. Bruce Damer [August 11, 2012]
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Biota Special: Roy Plotnick [July 30, 2012]
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Biota Live #77: Reboot [April 8, 2011]
Tom Barbalet
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Biota Live #76: Bob Mottram [December 18, 2010]
Bob Mottram
Tom Barbalet
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[ MP3 ] Length: 1:11:42
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Slides from the Talk
Bob Mottram's Wiki
Bob Mottram's Noble Ape Server
Noble Ape Simulation
Tom Barbalet
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[ MP3 ] Length: 2:03:17
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[ MP3 ] Length: 19:07
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Biota 2 Conference Audio
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