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Word cloud of my PhD thesis October 17, 2008 in Tools | Tags: word cloud, phd thesis | No comments Quick post. I just discovered Worlde. The site lets you truth about enzyte generate word clouds from any text.
Read the rest of this entry » October 2, 2008 in Experiments, Research, Results, Thoughts, videos | Tags: bacterial chemotaxis, building blocks, CTRNN, intracellular signalling, protein circuit, signalling network | No comments This is a bit of a long post (took me the better part of today). It shall serve as my initial train of thought on something that I would like to refine, extend, and publish somewhere more seriously. So, if you find the post interesting, and/or you think you can help me shape it such that it becomes so, then don’t hesitate to contact me. Read the rest of this entry » July 3, 2008 in Research, Results | Tags: adaptive behavior journal, alife, birmingham, esignet, phd thesis, update, writing | No comments Getting around to writing this post has taken even longer than the usual. I will attempt to briefly catch up. What have I done so far this year? In terms of writing first. Read the rest of this entry » December 8, 2007 in Reads, Reflections, Research, Thoughts | Tags: economy, plans, writing | 1 comment For the last couple of months I have been spending most time working on my thesis. It has been actually very enjoyable, for the most part. There have been some days where it has been somewhat painful. The quick update is that it is going well and that I still hope to submit very soon. As expected, there are many experiments, and tasks, and analysis that I would like to expand into. But I’m going to have to leave it for later. As Inman keeps reminding me, there is no such thing as a finished thesis… Read the rest of this entry » October 17, 2007 in Reads, Tools | Tags: journals, reading | 3 comments Journals checked regularly (in no particular order): Behavioral Neuroscience Read the rest of this entry » September 17, 2007 in Conferences, Reflections | Tags: Bannasch, barrio alto, Beer, Bongard, Conferences, Di Paolo, dynamical systems, ecal, Floreano, Goodwin, Ikegami, information theory, talks, Tani, Wile, workshops | 1 comment Before I move on to my daily research routine I will first attempt to reflect on the conference. Hopefully this way I can reduce the chances of forgetting it ever happened. I won’t go into much depth but only some of the things I remember most clearly. Read the rest of this entry » June 22, 2007 in Experiments | Tags: chaos, CTRNNs, dynamical systems, monotonic, periodic orbits, point attractors, transfer functions | No comments The following is a follow-up to my transfer function post a couple of days ago. Two persons have suggested using a simpler non-monotonic function such as the Gaussian. I will incorporate results with that transfer function. Also, I will add one more category to my previous minimalistic categorizationof asymptotic dynamics: point attractors versus other dynamics. I am now including periodic orbits. Still very minimalistic. Read the rest of this entry » June 21, 2007 in Thoughts | Tags: dynamical system analysis, geometrical explanations, minimal experiments, worries | No comments I will try to express here two worries that I have had dancing around in my head (and probably body too) for some time now, but which I had not been too explicitly aware of until relatively recently. These preoccupations have arisen from general conversations with people in CCNR-related environments and have occurred with more than one person in different contexts, but it is not aimed at any one person in particular. Read the rest of this entry » June 20, 2007 in Experiments | Tags: CTRNNs, transfer functions | 2 comments What effect does the neural transfer function have on the ‘interestingness’ of circuit dynamics? What counts as ‘interesting’ dynamics? I will present here one very simple and very preliminary study that suggests this is worth looking further into. Read the rest of this entry » |