Tuesday, January 28, 2025
Self-Assembling Wires
The video shown in class of self-assembly of wires made of metal bearings.
Labels: #self-assembly, #self-organization
Monday, January 27, 2025
Links for Information Lecture 2
Information Basics
Information Theory Tutorial
Letter frequency in English
Word and Letter Frequency in English
Entropy of English
Text Mechanic - Text Manipulation Tools
1952 – “Theseus” Maze-Solving Mouse @ cyberneticzoo.com
Information Theory Tutorial
Letter frequency in English
Word and Letter Frequency in English
Entropy of English
Text Mechanic - Text Manipulation Tools
1952 – “Theseus” Maze-Solving Mouse @ cyberneticzoo.com
Claude Shannon Demonstrating Theseus
Labels: #entropy, #information, #life
Wednesday, January 22, 2025
Mathematicians discover new class of shape seen throughout nature
‘Soft cells’ — shapes with rounded corners and pointed tips that fit together on a plane — feature in onions, molluscs and more. Full news article by Philip Glass at Nature.
Labels: #Mathematics, #Morphology
Lecture notes (chapter 1): What is Life?
Welcome to Life-Inspired, ISE483/SSIE583 Spring 2025 Class. On this blog you will see many types of posts related to the class, from links to multimedia materials used in class, to breaking research on related topics. The updated first chapter of the course's lecture notes is now available:
ISE483/SSIE583: What is Life?
You can also listen to the AI-produced podcast of this chapter via Google NoteBookLM. Note, the AI-podcast does not substitute the lecture notes at all! it brings up many connections not really in the argument, it is provided for fun only.
You can also listen to the AI-produced podcast of this chapter via Google NoteBookLM. Note, the AI-podcast does not substitute the lecture notes at all! it brings up many connections not really in the argument, it is provided for fun only.
Labels: #artificallife, #bioinspiredcomputing, #ComplexSystems, #evolutionarysystems, #life
