A breadcrumb trail of project notes
I moved back to San Francisco (though currently in Vancouver en route to Alaska… see the next post). Had the chance to take Strange Attractor to a meadow full of wildflowers in Northern California. The meadow was filled with several species of butterflies. There were white butterflies (positive ident forthcoming) feeding on the minerals in [...]
Read More..>>Natalie Jeremijenko and I released two dozen butterflies in the OOZ garden. We helped them feed from some watermelon in the Strange Attractor artificial flowers then observed their behaviour. The Monarchs stayed at Strange Attractor longer and were more likely to leave, fly around the garden a bit and return to the flowers. The Painted [...]
Read More..>>My thesis project presentation is online. Make sure you make it past the first few minutes of silent sparkles (the videos are archived automatically and the sparkles are when I was setting up).
Read More..>>I took some pictures at the Biology and Art: Two Worlds or One? conference presented by the New York Academy of Science. I hadn’t realized that Theo Jasen had used a genetic algorithm to get the lengths for his beach animals. There are 11 sections in each leg that contribute of the shape of the [...]
Read More..>>I was interviewed about my thesis a little while ago for Jeffrey Leblanc‘s online video show Talking To ITP. Interview part one Interview part two
Read More..>>I’ve done a lot of research and have started down a few different paths that could become the focus of my thesis or basis for future work. I wrote down the different areas/topics that I’m interested in on a bunch of postit notes and stuck them to the wall. They fall under the broad categories [...]
Read More..>>I gave a presentation this week on DNA computing to the ITP Artificial Intelligence and Biologically Inspired Computing discussion group. DNA computing is fascinating to me since it offers the potential of massive parallelization (trillions of copies in a drop of water), use of DNA as input and output, and tiny power consumption. The basic [...]
Read More..>>Dare to compare this Flash animation of RNA translation into protein with the 1970s interpretation I posted earlier this week.
Read More..>>The brilliant (and twisted) Real Ben Brown sent me this fantastic video of a dance interpretation of protein synthesis carried out with hundreds of students on a football field in 1971. It’s narrated by Nobel laureate Paul Berg and check out that sound track! All kinds of awesome.
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