What a great week at the @aliceworkshop.org (Artificial Life, Intelligence, Complexity & Evolution) in Copenhagen. Our multidisciplinary group worked intensely for the whole week and we got the 2nd prize!! Thanks to the amazing organizers from the REAL lab and the jury.

Buon #Natale!

Our paper "ARC-NCA: Towards Developmental Solutions to the Abstraction & Reasoning Corpus" has been awarded a Runner-Up #ARCprize Congrats team: E. Guichard, F. Reimers, M. Kvalsund, M. Lepperød, & me Thanks F. Chollet, G. Kamradt, M. Knoop! Paper: etimush.github.io/ARC_NCA/

Da #SIP a #Telecom…adesso è tutto #TIM…ma se li avete usati tutti e quattro…allora siete tutti ex giovincelli come il sottoscritto?!

This year's ALICE guest speakers 🧑‍🔬 - Angel Goñi-Moreno - @angelgm.bsky.social - Alyssa Adams - @alyssa-m-adams.bsky.social - Alexander Mordvintsev - Eric Medvet - @ericmedvetts.bsky.social - Kyrre Glette - @kyrre2000.bsky.social - Stefano Nichele - @stenichele.bsky.social - Susan Stepney

Come learn about UCLA research projects that have been suspended under the Trump administration, and why they matter for all of us. 🧪 Wednesday, Sept 10 | 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM 📍 Northwest corner of Westwood & Le Conte

Be part of the next generation of virtual creatures: Enter the 2025 Virtual Creatures Competition (VCC)! Held at #ALIFE2025, the #VCC is an annual competition to showcase recent research in the field of artificial life. Judges and prizes to be announced soon. ⬇️ ⬇️

🏹 Job alert: PhD fellowship in Explainable Natural Language Understanding at the University of Copenhagen 📍 Copenhagen 🇩🇰 📅 Apply by Oct 31 🔗 https://bit.ly/4g5sZ0Q

And here are the accepted contributions to the Special Session #TheDistributedCiphers at @alife2025.bsky.social: Details: www.nichele.eu/ALIFE-Distri... See you in Kyoto 🇯🇵

Presentation of our work on "NCAs for memory transfer + application to ARC-AGI", given at the computational series of the #Levin Lab at Tufts & Harvard Universities. Thanks M. Levin for the kind invitation & special thanks to Etienne for presenting our work. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyc0...

New book review, freely available in GPEM: “Reversible world of cellular automata” by Kenichi Morita, reviewed by Tomas Rokicki link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Sesta e ultima tappa del #Venezia-#Puglia, da Marina di Montenero (di Bisaccia) a San Severo. Fino a Termoli tutto bene, anche se sulla provinciale (molto larga); mare ancora visibile. Poi ci si addentra nell'interno. Nel Foggiano le strade sono terribili, più buche che asfalto. Nessun ciclista.

Quinta tappa #Venezia-#Puglia, da Martinsicuro a Marina di Montenero, in Molise per 100m. Gran parte su ciclabile. Bellissimo il tratto "dei Trabocchi" su ex percorso ferroviario. Interessante ma bigoloso il passaggio vicino a Punta Aderci. Il paesaggio cambia completamente.

Quarta tappa #Venezia-#Puglia, da Senigallia a Martinsicuro. Lunghissima. Doveva essere la tappa "del Conero" (che c'è stato), ma è stata la tappa delle due forature. Per il resto tace spiagge, tanto #mare blu, bellissimo. Alcuni tratti di ciclabile vietati alle bici, alcuni sentieri poco ciclabili.

Terza tappa #Venezia-#Puglia. Ho visto moltissime partite di beach volley, ma nessun punto completo. Tanta ciclabile sulla spiaggia, 1 attraversamento con traghettino, ascesa a #Gradara. Ho pomposamente attraversato il #Rubicone: "dadus tractus est", non torno più indietro!

Seconda tappa #Venezia-#Puglia, da Ca' Mello a Milano Marittima. 2 traghettini, 1 foratura, tanti ponti (anche di barconi), tanta pineta, ancora lagune (o valli), Sant'Apollinare in Classe e vista spiagge!

Prima tappa della ciclovacanza 2025, #Venezia-#Puglia. Oggi da Mestre a Ca' Mello, nel nulla vicino alla foce del #Po. 2 ferry, 1 vaporetto, 1 barchino. Taaaaanta laguna. Caldo ma "non troppo".

Our tree-based pipeline optimization tool (TPOT) automated machine learning (AutoML) review paper is featured in this special issue of Cell's Patterns on open-source software www.cell.com/patterns/iss... #tpot #automl #mlsky #machinelearning

📣 📣 📣 ANNOUNCEMENT 📣 📣 📣 Deadline of the Community 🎨 Art and Demos submission have been extended by one month !!! 🫟 Updated deadline: August 31, 2025. And again, you don't have to be an artiste professionnel 👨‍🎨 in order to submit. 🖼️

I finally had time to update PyCX to ver. 1.2! Many new models and bug fixes. Enjoy!! github.com/hsayama/PyCX

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🏹 Job alert: Postdoctoral Research Associate in Robotics & AI at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social‬ 📍London 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 📅 Apply by July 24th 🔗 More info: https://bit.ly/4kgke4y

The singularity is awesome

Reinforcement Learning Teachers of Test Time Scaling arxiv.org/abs/2506.08388 We introduce a new way to teach LLMs how to reason by learning to teach, not solve! Here, a teacher model is rewarded based on how effectively its explanations help the student model recover correct solutions.

Lab alumnus @samkriegman.com just won a very prestigious NSF CAREER Award. Congratulations Sam!! www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...

🏹 Job alert: PhD/postdoc positions in Scientific Foundation Models at the University of Liège (Belgium) 📍 Liège 🇧🇪 🔗 More info: https://bit.ly/43SJtUG

Our book chapter "Studying Encoder–Decoder Relation Between Cellular Automata to Uncover Their Computational Structure" is finally published in the book "Advances in Cellular Automata, Volume 2". This work was led by Bára Hudcová, in collaboration with Tomas Mikolov and myself.

I'm looking for 1 PhD student in Program Synthesis (3 years in Portugal, 1 year at CMU). Deadline: June 15th. DMs are open.

🏹 Job alert: Assistant Professor (RTDA) in Computer Vision at University of Trento 📍 Trento 🇮🇹 📅 Apply by July 10 🔗 More info: https://mhug.disi.unitn.it/open-positions/1/

Today I gave an invited talk for the opening of the PhD program in Strategic Innovation for Sustainable and Smart Ecosystems (SIS2E) at UNIMIB. I talked about AI in medicine, the dangers of high risk applications, and the recent assaults from lobbies to the GPAI code-of-practice

Primo raccolto dell'#orto 2025. C'è mercato 🐔! #km0

“Anonymous GitHub” — I just discovered this today. What a great idea!! (Apparently I am the 46,631ˢᵗ to find it.) Provides an anonymized portal to your GitHub respiratory suitable for submission to double-blind review for research conference papers or journal articles. anonymous.4open.science

I am also actively recruiting graduate student for my new Assistant Professor role starting in July at the University of Alberta. If you will be at #Evol2025 and are looking for opportunities to study at the intersection of AI/ML and biology (especially evolution), let's talk in Athens!

Excited to introduce the Darwin Gödel Machine: Open-Ended Evolution of Self-Improving Agents. We harness the power of open-ended algorithms to search for agentic systems that get better at coding, including improving their own code.

🏹 Job alert: PhD Positions for Probabilistic Numerical Algorithms for AI for Science at @tuebingen-ai.bsky.social‬ 📍 Tübingen 🇩🇪 🔗 More info: https://bit.ly/3Soz1Pk

New preprint! arxiv.org/abs/2505.15849 : Reed Bender (www.linkedin.com/in/reed-bend...), Karina Kofman (www.linkedin.com/in/karina-ko...), @blaiseaguera.bsky.social "What Lives? A meta-analysis of diverse opinions on the definition of life"

Our early-career group is seeking nominations for the Outsanding Student Publication award to be presented at this year's #ALIFE conference @alife2025.bsky.social. See the thread for full details.

🚀 New preprint! ARC-NCA shows how Neural Cellular Automata —incl. memory-rich EngramNCA—crack tasks from the ARC-AGI benchmark, hitting GPT-4.5-level accuracy at a fraction of the cost. 🌱🤖 Web: etimush.github.io/ARC_NCA/ Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2505.08778 #NeuroAI #AGI #CA #ALIFE

Looking for exclusive AI/ML research jobs in Europe? 🌍 Advance your career with opportunities at top labs in the ELLIS Network. Browse the jobs & sign up for the new Jobs newsletter: ellis.eu/jobs #AIJobs #PhD #Postdoc #BrainGain

Could a major opportunity to improve representation in deep learning be hiding in plain sight? Check out our new position paper: Questioning Representational Optimism in Deep Learning: The Fractured Entangled Representation Hypothesis. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2505.11581

The Genomic Code: the genome instantiates a generative model of the organism www.cell.com/trends/genet... - really delighted to see this in print in @cp-trendsgenetics.bsky.social! 😊

Our new neuroscience paper - hot off the press! Check it out! 🧠🧠🧠💻💻💻

🏹 Job alert: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at @ukplab.bsky.social, @tuda.bsky.social The UKP Lab at TU Darmstadt offers a 2-year postdoctoral position (with possible extension) in AI and ML with a strong focus on NLP. 📍Darmstadt 🔗 www.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/ukp/ukp_home... ➡️ Apply by May 25

This is what a rigged economy looks like: In the 1970s, CEOs made 27 times more than the average worker. In the 1980s, CEOs made 48 times more than the average worker. This decade, CEOs are making 354 times more than the average worker. That has got to change.

It was my pleasure to invite the participants of #Evostar2025 to join us at #GECCO2025 in Malaga this summer.

Ci lascia dopo 8 anni di ottimo servizio. 🫱🏼‍🫲🏻👋🏼 #venduto!

Air pollution has dropped significantly in #Paris in the last 15 years as a result of a deliberate strategy. Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s leadership has traded car space for green space, safe bike space, kid space.. and traded pollution for people. Good trade.

oh no

🧪A few years ago 📖 André Teixeira and I introduced ✖️multiplicative watermarking 🫆as a lightweight 🪶 encoding approach to detect attackers 🥷tampering with data in an industrial control systems 🏭. Being based on a bank of linear filters, it is easy and fast to implement, contrary to encryption.