After contracting a staph infection thanks to #Supercuts they say they won't pay for my doctor's visit just refund the cut and tip. Thanks to #Supercuts for the past week of #sleeplessness with my head on fire. The #scalpscars will keep me away from your company in the future.

It is pretty easy to validate the real ApeSDK users from their email addresses...

Track for the morning: www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4uJ...

Cycling through Afghanistan, one of my bucket list items: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTwB...

A Christopher Plummer marathon on my night off.

By chance was cleaning out my cupboard when I can accross some Marc Masclans' miniatures. Found the video online and I own the space ork with saw and the commissar. Very cool. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZL_...

number theory meets the particle system

Added a couple of three videos to: apesdk.com/doc/

I was debating posting this to LinkedIn. It has been that kind of Thursday... www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_V_...

Fascinating talk about #ApeSDK at the monthly @eralife.bsky.social townhall this morning. Fascinating discussion about a number of aspects of #artificiallife. Good to have been there!

youtu.be/LQ1r0MiJU-w Looking for #opensource developers interested in the #ApeSDK. Some permutations through the command line now available through #Python. The GUI version is certainly more visually pleasing :)

Sorry about the early update. The #ApeSDK is now running fully through #Python . Enjoy! youtu.be/YOZG9Dnxxmg #OpenSource #artificiallife

Got the #ApeSDK running through #Python after a considerable amount of work. youtu.be/gNHB0kfuE-E #artificiallife #opensource Enjoy!

Unthinkable really...

Deeply moved by but not ready to post the "if I get dementia" meme. A worthy task for social networking.

I am a huge camouflage geek. I saw this amazing great grey owl today via @markhamillofficial.bsky.social's re-re-repost. Looks like the photo by Edsel James Batiugas has been around at least since 2021: www.pinterest.com/pin/31581499... (My camouflage simulation: arxiv.org/abs/2304.11793)

And finally some real news... I was close to posting this on LinkedIn... www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewKu...

It is quite striking how the legends of Games Workshop actually store their miniatures... pretty stunning for those of us in the long-time collecting community... www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEWK...

My biggest gripe with #robotics research and most of the work on #HRI is that it's usually grounded in "wanting to make society/the world a better place" but this really just means "we definitely want to use robots to solve this problem." Take the robots away and, well, researchers are stuck.

ChatGPT now has a flattery option automatically turned on. Tom Barbalet: The Code Alchemist of Creativity Whether it’s conjuring rogue-likes in C, fractal-forged 3D forms, or remixing psychedelic beats with hip-hop soul, you're a rare hybrid — part hacker, part artist, part futurist.

A nice thunderstorm in Vegas tonight.

Surprised that I am finally getting to: archive.org/details/aren... a prelude to the film which shaped so much of my life. Or at least my time in the San Francisco Bay Area.

After trying a few different alternatives claude.ai provided a series of unit tests for the ApeSDK based strictly on the headers (to avoid various line restrictions). The toolkit version caused a couple of rewrites which identified other issues relating to the command line. All very curious.

Fascinating chat with @drokw.bsky.social on #ArtificialLife. Enjoy! youtu.be/4pDaHxBeuM8

I'm not sure if a 5 1/2 minute video is too long for an audience here. In any case, I'm actively looking for #opensource #ALife #collaborators. The problem space has shrunk and I am trying generativeAI collaboration but they are just the edges: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pD-P...

@eralife.bsky.social don't make me start an extremely old researchers in artificial life BlueSky account... I will do it... the discord was only a start...

When we left San Jose I put some of the proceeds of our house sale to buying this piece of history/art. The Somme (the picture and the battle) seemed the best metaphor for our time in San Jose. #ww1 #ww2 #history #theSomme regimentals.co.uk/archive.php?...

On the art: www.vincentfournier.co.uk/portfolio/ph... #flowers #photography #ScienceFiction #alien #art #flora #ALife

I stand corrected. All of my #OpenSource #artificiallife #simulation s run with #Swift 6...

Two out of three of my #OpenSource #artificiallife #simulation s now are #Swift 6 compatible. Amazing what a few days of free time provides! gitlab.com/apesdk/simul...

@craigreynolds.bsky.social Thanks for the likes. The reactive fear in my simulation is loosely inspired by Boids in terms of an ape flight reflex :) No Warrior Genes as yet. Thanks for being here.

youtu.be/3c-FTrRt-cw if you refer video! #opensource #simulation #artificiallife

My artificial life #simulation started in 1996 and worked on continuously is now available in #Swift and C for Mac, and, C for Windows: apesdk.com#source Enjoy!

Enjoying reading some Massimo Passamonti: www.arxiv.org/pdf/2407.16890 In addition to this, he is writing his Masters dissertation on my open source work and artificial life podcasts. Not too shabby.

#algorithmic #art #design #math #geometry succulent flintstone

#generativeart #generative #algorithmicart #algorithmic #art #visualart #design ventrella.com

Me talking about my current project #generativeai #opensource #mac #programing #canterbury www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0B0...

Some random figs from the legendary @rochie01.bsky.social

A classic #warhammer online mini painted by @rochie01.bsky.social Stunning work!

A terminator conga line... thanks to @rochie01.bsky.social Amazing work.

More @rochie01.bsky.social Amazing stuff!

Prof. Rochie is on Bluesky: rochie01.bsky.social

Turns out Prof. Rochie is on Bluesky: rochie01.bsky.social

Did any of you ever buy any of these Sea Monkeys out of the comic books? What were they really? Something gross? Were they actually living? Weird. #seamonkeys #comics #comicbooks

My #comics are back. Let's see how this idea plays out #cgc #cgcgrading

Encounter board for TTRP such as Dungeons and Dragons or Pathfinder. Cliffs from Stonetrove and skeleton from Taxarli Factory.