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Eric Medvet

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Associate Professor in Computer Engineering at University of #Trieste, head of Evolutionary Robotics and Artificial Life Lab. 👉🏼 https://medvet.inginf.units.it/

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ELLIS @ellis.eu · Sep 3

🏹 Job alert: PhD fellowship in Explainable Natural Language Understanding at the University of Copenhagen

📍 Copenhagen 🇩🇰
📅 Apply by Oct 31
🔗 https://bit.ly/4g5sZ0Q

PhD fellowship in Explainable Natural Language Understanding Department of Computer Science Faculty of SCIENCE University of Copenhagen

The Natural Language Processing Section at the Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science at the University of Copenhagen invites applicants for a PhD f

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ALIFE Conference 2025 @alife2025.bsky.social · Sep 3

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.
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Elisa Franco @francolab.bsky.social · Sep 3

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

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Stefano Nichele @stenichele.bsky.social · Aug 28

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 🇯🇵

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Stefano Nichele @stenichele.bsky.social · Aug 27

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...

"A Neural Cellular Automaton Model of Memory Transfer" by Etienne Guichard and Stefano Nichele.

YouTube video by Michael Levin's Academic Content

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GPEM journal @gpem.bsky.social · Aug 21

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...

Kenichi Morita: Reversible world of cellular automata - Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines

Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines -

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Eric Medvet @ericmedvetts.bsky.social · Aug 21

E poi "scovaze" ovunque a bordo strada. Non un paio di cartacce, ma un continuo di bottiglie (direi una al metro, almeno), soprattutto di birra, e altri residui. Una cosa sistematica, e vergognosa. Per chilometri.

Eric Medvet @ericmedvetts.bsky.social · Aug 21

Alla fine di una discesa di campagna, c'erano tre dossi perpendicolari alla marcia, con dislivello di 30cm almeno. Sono riuscito a stare in piedi, ma si è rotto il portapacchi. Tutte le strade che non fossero almeno una provinciale erano terribili.

Eric Medvet @ericmedvetts.bsky.social · Aug 21

81 km in poco meno di 7h, 670m di guadagno altitudine (serve contare tutti i buchi...).

Eric Medvet @ericmedvetts.bsky.social · Aug 21

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.

Eric Medvet @ericmedvetts.bsky.social · Aug 20

130km in 9h e mezza, miracolo delle non forature. Da grande velocità la ciclabile dei Trabocchi, se non fosse che avevo il vento contro. Qualche saliscendi.

Eric Medvet @ericmedvetts.bsky.social · Aug 20

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.

Eric Medvet @ericmedvetts.bsky.social · Aug 19

Ecco il cambio gomme di ora di pranzo...

Eric Medvet @ericmedvetts.bsky.social · Aug 19

128km in quasi 11h, ma con tante pause. Ascesa al Conero impegnativa su sentiero stretto e sterratissimo.

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Eric Medvet @ericmedvetts.bsky.social · Aug 19

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.

Eric Medvet @ericmedvetts.bsky.social · Aug 18

120km, 10.5h, piccola ascesa ai quasi 90m di poco a sud di Gradara.

Eric Medvet @ericmedvetts.bsky.social · Aug 18

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!

Eric Medvet @ericmedvetts.bsky.social · Aug 17

117km, 9.5h, ancora zero saliscendi (ma abbastanza sterrato).

Eric Medvet @ericmedvetts.bsky.social · Aug 17

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!

Eric Medvet @ericmedvetts.bsky.social · Aug 16

116km, 9h, zero saliscendi!

Eric Medvet @ericmedvetts.bsky.social · Aug 16

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".

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Jason Moore @moorejh.bsky.social · Jul 28

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

Current issue: Patterns

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ALIFE Conference 2025 @alife2025.bsky.social · Jul 28

📣 📣 📣 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. 🖼️

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Hiroki Sayama @hirokisayama.bsky.social · Jul 25

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

GitHub - hsayama/PyCX: PyCX is a Python-based sample code repository for complex systems research and education.

PyCX is a Python-based sample code repository for complex systems research and education. - hsayama/PyCX

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Brittlestar @brittlestar.com · Feb 10

JOIN CANADA

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Jul 14

This is very good.

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AI is a tool (sorry!) that people who are bad at their jobs will use badly and that people who are good at their jobs will maybe, possibly find some uses for. People who are terrible at their jobs (many executives), will tell their employees that they “need” to use AI, that their jobs depend on it, that they must become more productive, and that becoming an AI-first company is the strategy that will save them from the old failed strategy, which itself was the new strategy after other failed business models.

The only journalism business strategy that works, and that will ever work in a sustainable way, is if you create something of value that people (human beings, not bots) want to read or watch or listen to, and that they cannot find anywhere else.

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ELLIS @ellis.eu · Jun 30

🏹 Job alert: Postdoctoral Research Associate in Robotics & AI at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social‬

📍London 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
📅 Apply by July 24th
🔗 More info: https://bit.ly/4kgke4y

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Robotics & AI

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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · Jun 28

The singularity is awesome

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To find an all-you-can-eat buffet near you, you can use online search engines like Google or Yelp, specifying "all you can eat buffet near me". These searches will typically provide a list of nearby restaurants offering buffet-style dining, including their addresses, contact information, and customer reviews. You can also refine your

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sakanaai.bsky.social @sakanaai.bsky.social · Jun 23

Introducing Reinforcement-Learned Teachers (RLTs): Transforming how we teach LLMs to reason with reinforcement learning (RL).

Blog: sakana.ai/rlt
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2506.08388
Code: github.com/SakanaAI/RLT

We introduce a new way to teach LLMs how to reason by learning to teach, not solve.

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Josh Bongard @doctorjosh.bsky.social · Jun 14

Lab alumnus @samkriegman.com just won a very prestigious NSF CAREER Award.

Congratulations Sam!!

www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...

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