Simon continues to explore ways to simulate evolution

Simon’s code: https://editor.p5js.org/simontiger/sketches/5Sx2Solm7 Simon made this by reverse-engineering Primer’s project as shown in his video Simulating Natural Selection.

Simon on: Will we ever live in a pure mathematical world?

In reaction to Yuval Noah Harari’s book Homo Deus (the part about humans evolving to break out of the organic realm and possibly breaking out of planet Earth): When you cross the … Continue reading Simon on: Will we ever live in a pure mathematical world?

Evolutionary Steering Behaviors Game

Note: See the update at the bottom of this post! We’ve had quite a dramatic situation here for the past couple of days, after Simon turned Daniel Shiffman’s Evolutionary Steering … Continue reading Evolutionary Steering Behaviors Game

Error with Genetic Algorithm. What is wrong?

Simon was almost done translating Smart Rockets example no. 2 (Smart Rockets Superbasic) from Daniel Shiffman’s The Nature of Code, from Processing (Java) into JavaScript in Cloud9, when he got … Continue reading Error with Genetic Algorithm. What is wrong?

Looping through an array lecture

In these videos Simon explains looping through an array and adding while simultaneously removing things from that array. He recorded this presentation while working on an evolution simulation (Evolutionary Steering Behaviors, see … Continue reading Looping through an array lecture

Simulating Evolution: Evolutionary Steering Behaviors

  On Wednesday Simon went on with playing god (evolution simulation) and translated Daniel Shiffman’s Evolutionary Steering Behaviors Coding Challenge from JavaScript to Java.  The goal of the challenge is to … Continue reading Simulating Evolution: Evolutionary Steering Behaviors

Autonomous Agents and Genetic Algorithms

Today Simon spent hours watching videos and reading Daniel Shiffman’s book The Nature of Code, concentrating on more complicated matters than ever: autonomous agents and evolution (genetic algorithms). In The … Continue reading Autonomous Agents and Genetic Algorithms