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I tend to scribble a lot
A photo demonstrating how much I scribble on papers when I'm editing.
Also posted in Computing, Education, My writing, Photography, Research, Science Tagged editing, GECCO, genetic programming, my photography, textbook, Writing Comments closed
Any suggestions for cool lawnmowers?
Looking for alternatives to stinky petrol powered mowers and (for us) ineffective reel mowers.
Also posted in Environment, Family, Gardening, My writing Tagged alternative, energy, garden, goat, grass, lawn, lawnmowers, mower, reel mowers, robot Comments closed
How times change; how books change
Penguin’s promoting some exploration of the concept of “book” in their We tell stories series, where six authors have contributed new works, each of which explores some aspect of on-line story-telling, sometimes quite distinct from more traditional printed books. Not all of these are equally successful (I thought the idea of “The 21 steps” was [...]
Also posted in Books, Computing, Education Tagged Books, change, media distribution, statistics Comments closed
UMM students are just so cool!
As mentioned earlier, our paper “Semantic building blocks in genetic programming” with Brian Ohs (UMM ’08) and Tyler Hutchison (UMM ’07) was nominated for Best Paper at EuroGP 2008 in Naples, Italy. We won! That a paper co-authored with two undergraduates from a small, public, undergraduate liberal arts institution like the University of Minnesota, Morris, [...]
Also posted in Computing, Education, Events, My writing, Research, Sabbatical, Science Tagged Art, Books, conference, EuroGP, evolution, evolutionary computation, genetic programming, Italy, Naples, Sabbatical, Science, Semantic Building Blocks in Genetic Programming, University of Minnesota Morris Comments closed
A heck of a party!
Last night’s unveiling of A Field Guide to Genetic Programming was a huge success! We had one of the poster “stalls” with 50 copies of the book that we’d purchased from Lulu as our initial “print run”. We were wearing cool t-shirts sporting that wonderful cover, had the nice poster shown to the right, and [...]
Also posted in Books, Computing, Education, Events, My writing, Research, Sabbatical, Science Tagged A Field Guide to GP, Books, EuroGP, genetic programming, Naples, unveiling Comments closed
Almost ready for EuroGP!
We’ve ordered a couple of boxes of advance copies our book (a privilege of being the authors). They look really nice, and we’re quite excited about the grand unveiling on Wednesday at EuroGP! For those of you coming to Naples, definitely stop by our table at the poster session that night — you’ll be able [...]
Also posted in Art, Books, Computing, Events, My writing, Research, Science Tagged A Field Guide to GP, conference, design, EuroGP, GP Book, Italy, Naples, Science Comments closed
JOCP! At revision 400!
It’s pretty cool when you update your repository and see At revision 400 We just hit that on the genetic programming book that Riccardo and Bill and I are working on; we’re currently averaging close to 10 commits a day here in the final stages. We hope to wrap it up in the next 1.5 [...]
Also posted in Books, Computing, Education, My writing, Research, Science Tagged Books, change, evolution, evolutionary computation, genetic programming, GP Book, programming, Research, Sabbatical, Writing Comments closed
You know, basic editing and lit review = teh good
Just finished my GECCO reviewing, and I must say that is seriously sucks when people don’t attend to even the most basic of issues. Two things almost guaranteed to majorly annoy a reviewer: Weird random floating fragments of text that are obviously the disemboweled remnants of some cut and paste action. Only 8 entries in [...]
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Thomas is heading to the Minnesota state finals for Poetry Out Loud!