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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 Special: Artificial Life Hobbyist Birds-of-a-Feather, ALIFE XIII [July 19, 2012]

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Biota Special: Teaching Artificial Life for Industry, ALIFE XIII [July 19, 2012]

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Biota Special: Artificial Life in Industry, ALIFE XIII [July 19, 2012]

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Biota Special: Bruce Damer at CONTACT 2012 [March 30, 2012]

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Biota Special: Bruce Damer on the ChemoGrid [September 18, 2011]

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Biota Special, Giving Thanks [February 26, 2009]

   Gerald de Jong
   Eric Burton
   Tom Barbalet

   [ MP3 ] Length: 1:25:05

Biota Special, Bruce Damer's PhD Transfer [February 16, 2009]

   EvoGrid
   Bruce Damer

   [ MP3 ] Length: 45:11

Biota Special, Intelligence from Nothing [December 28, 2008]

   Eric Burton
   Tom Barbalet

   [ MP3 ] Length: 1:15:28 (Lite MP3: Part 1 7.9Mb, Part 2 9.0Mb)

Jamie Matthews on ALIFE XI [August 9, 2008]

   Jamie Matthews
   Tom Barbalet

   ALIFE XI
   ALIFE XI Proceedings

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   [ MP3 ] Length: 26:09

Scott Schafer at GreyThumb Silicon Valley [July 29, 2008]

   Scott Schafer's Blog Post on the Event

   [ MP3 ] Length: 27:33

Bruce Damer at GreyThumb London [July 11, 2008]

   [ MP3 ] Length: 1:37:42

Justin Lyon at GreyThumb London [July 11, 2008]

   [ MP3 ] Length: 20:30

Ethics and Artificial Life Development? [March 26, 2008]

   Travis Savo
   Tom Barbalet

   [ MP3 ] Length: 49:22

Brian Peltonen [March 16, 2008]

   GreyThumb
   Living Playsets (place-holder currently)
   Bamzooki GreyThumb Blog Post
   Evolving Creatures GreyThumb Blog Post

   [ MP3 ] Length: 34:51

Bruce Damer at GreyThumb Boston [March 3, 2008]

   Bruce Damer
   Bruce Damer's Presentation PDF
   GreyThumb

   [ MP3 ] Length: 10:41

Questions to Will Wright + Lecture from Rudy Rucker [January 30, 2008]

   Video footage of Will Wright at NASA

   [ MP3 ] Length: 50:50

Bruce Damer [October 23, 2007]

   Bruce Damer
   The Space Show featuring Bruce Damer
   Tom Barbalet

   [ MP3 ] Length: 1:05:39

John Eikenberry [October 21, 2007]

   AI/Alife How-To

   [ MP3 ] Length: 9:50

Nell Tenhaaf (VIDA 10.0) [October 2, 2007]

   Nell Tenhaaf
   VIDA

   [ MP3 ] Length: 20:14

Jon Klein [September 18, 2007]

   Breve
   Greythumb

   [ MP3 ] Length: 31:24

Joe Rheaume [September 4, 2007]

   Biots
   Trilobots

   Kongregate
   Insaniquarium
   Infect. Evolve. Repeat
   Fungus
   Warning Forever
   Wikipedia article on B.C.

   [ MP3 ] Length: 40:11

Steve Grand (Part 3) [August 25, 2007]

   Steve Grand (Wikipedia)
   Personal Homepage
   Steve Grand (Creatures Wiki)

   [ MP3 ] Length: 16:48

Steve Grand (Part 2) [August 8, 2007]

   Steve Grand (Wikipedia)
   Personal Homepage
   Steve Grand (Creatures Wiki)

   [ MP3 ] Length: 26:05

Steve Grand (Part 1) [August 5, 2007]

   Steve Grand (Wikipedia)
   Personal Homepage
   Steve Grand (Creatures Wiki)

   [ MP3 ] Length: 37:11

Dawkins, Memetics, Commerce and the Future [Part 2 of 3]

   Gerald de Jong
   Tom Barbalet

   [ MP3 ] Length: 24:38

Prof. Douglas Davis [July 14, 2007]

   Douglas Davis
   Freud
   Justin Hall
   Nick Yee

   [ MP3 ] Length: 54:07

Artificial Life Music [June 30, 2007]

   Lee Spector's Complex Adaptive Music Systems
   inSect22
   Joseph Nechvatal

   [ MP3 ] Length: 16:09

Artificial Life Contest [June 24, 2007]

   Artificial Life Contest

   [ MP3 ] Length: 13:43

Bruce Damer [June 19, 2007]

   Bruce Damer
   Tom Barbalet

   [ MP3 ] Length: 1:05:42

David Van Nuys [June 16, 2007]

   David Van Nuys
   Shrink Rap Radio
   ''This Is the Zodiac Speaking'': Into the Mind of a Serial Killer

   [ MP3 ] Length: 36:58

Lamarckian Simulation, Probable Movement in Possible Worlds, Artificial Distinctions and Creature-like Structures [Part 1 of 3]

   Gerald de Jong
   Tom Barbalet

   [ MP3 ] Length: 18:30

Spheres, Communication, Landscapes, User Interface and Possible Worlds [March 17, 2007]

   Gerald de Jong
   Tom Barbalet

   [ MP3 ] Length: 33:30

Can Artificial Life Explain the Cambrian Explosion? [February 3, 2007]

   Roy Plotnick
   John P. Daigle
   Dave Kerr
   Gerald de Jong
   Tom Barbalet

   [ MP3 ] Length: 1:17:02

Is Open Source Good for Artificial Life? [January 20, 2007]

   Gerald de Jong
   Pedro Ferreira
   Bruce Damer
   Tom Barbalet

   [ MP3 ] Length: 1:00:50

What is the Meaning of Artificial Life? [January 6, 2007]

   Dave Kerr
   Gerald de Jong
   Tom Barbalet

   [ MP3 ] Length: 1:00:50

Jay Lemmon [November 26, 2006]

   Artificial Life Wikipedia Entry
   DarwinBots

   [ MP3 ] Length: 19:07

Mark Bedau [November 18, 2006]

   Mark Bedau
   Protolife
   International Society of Artificial Life
   Artificial Life Journal

   [ MP3 ] Length: 33:40

Gerald de Jong's DarwinAtHome Podcast [October 21, 2006]

   Gerald de Jong's DarwinAtHome

   [ MP3 ] Length: 20:27

Jon McCormack [October 9, 2006]

   Jon McCormack

   [ MP3 ] Length: 15:32

Dr. Kenneth Stanley [September 30, 2006]

   Dr. Kenneth Stanley

   [ MP3 ] Length: 16:26

Maciej Komosinski [September 23, 2006]

   Maciej Komosinski
   Framsticks

   [ MP3 ] Length: 14:01

Sally-Jane Norman (VIDA 9.0) [September 2, 2006]

   Sally-Jane Norman
   VIDA

   [ MP3 ] Length: 15:18

Brig Klyce (Evolution Prize) [September 2, 2006]

   Brig Klyce / Panspermia

   [ MP3 ] Length: 18:28

Ken Stauffer [August 5, 2006]

   Ken Stauffer
   Evolve4

   [ MP3 ] Length: 16:08

Prof. Paul Johnson [July 15, 2006]

   Paul Johnson
   Swarm

   [ MP3 ] Length: 26:47

Dr. Zachary Moore [July 15, 2006]

   Zachary Moore
   Evolution 101 Podcast

   [ MP3 ] Length: 18:03

Jonathan Klein [July 8, 2006]

   Breve
   GreyThumb.org

   [ MP3 ] Length: 16:17

Bruce Damer [June 27, 2006]

   Bruce Damer

   [ MP3 ] Length: 58:37

John Daigle [June 25, 2006]

   [ MP3 ] Length: 16:15

Jeffrey Ventrella [June 18, 2006]

   Ventrella.com
   GenePool

   [ MP3 ] Length: 12:58

Gerald de Jong [June 10, 2006]

   DarwinAtHome

   [ MP3 ] Length: 17:40

Dr. Richard Gordon [May 14, 2006]

   Richard Gordon

   [ MP3 ] Length: 14:56

Dave Kerr [May 13, 2006]

   Dave Kerr's Company

   [ MP3 ] Length: 16:44

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