Excited to see what this special issue on Lexicase Selection surfaces! Are you working on selection in evolutionary computing, biology, machine learning, AI? Have some ideas about connections to lexicase selection (lexicase.ai)? Submission deadline is Dec 1, 2026. link.springer.com/collections/...

"[Hampshire College] was intellectually engaging and exciting, and at the same time an economically efficient and effective educational institution." www.amherstindy.org/2026/06/05/h...

Opinion: Hampshire College Didn’t Fail; Society Failed Hampshire - Amherst Indy

Since the public announcement of its imminent closure on April 14, many have opined on why Hampshire College "failed." Many of the reasons offered on outlets ranging from new social media to establish...

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I really enjoyed this brief conversation with Genesis Baez on what AI means for photography podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w... open.spotify.com/episode/3Nmr...

What AI Means for Photography with Genesis Baez

Podcast Episode · What AI Means · May 21 · 15m

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Hampshire College Faculty, Staff, and Students Deserve a Just Closure @hampshirecollege.bsky.social #westernmass #highered #academicsky actionnetwork.org/petitions/ha...

Hampshire Faculty, Staff, and Students Deserve a Just Closure

Support the Hampshire College community in securing employment, healthcare, and education.

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This was a fun conversation, that some of you might find interesting. The page I'm linking embeds the YouTube video, but you should also be able to find it on your favorite podcast app. danfaggella.com/spector1/ #ArtificialIntelligence #EvolutionaryComputation #CognitiveScience

Lee Spector - The Next Phase of Evolution Is Artificial (Worthy Successor, Episode 27) - Daniel Faggella

This new installment of the Worthy Successor series is an interview with Lee Spector, the Class of 1993 Professor of Computer Science and Chair of the

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What AI Means for Earth Science with Nicholas Holschuh podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

What AI Means

Technology Podcast · Updated Biweekly · What AI Means is the podcast that asks scholars and creators about the significance of artificial intelligence for the world as they see it, through the lenses ...

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New podcast! I ask scholars and creators about the significance of artificial intelligence for the world as they see it, through the lenses of their disciplines and expertise. What AI Means AI in the Liberal Arts at Amherst College Listen wherever you get podcasts, or at: lnkd.in/emd7NHus

New, brief overview of lexicase selection: lexicase.ai It considers individual training cases in different random orders, and therefore with different priorities, for each selection event. #AI #MachineLearning #ALife

@ladyslipperhere.bsky.social If your ever in Western MA area this is worth checking out I particularly enjoy the rainforest in the center in the middle of a New England winter garden.smith.edu/visit

The imaginatively named streets in Hadley, Massachusetts that cross the bike path on the way from Northampton to Amherst: Cross Path Rd, West St, Middle St, East St, South Maple St #westernmass

Much like "crab", industrial music is constantly re-evolving from first principles basically anywhere where there's a bunch of metal and plastic laying about

Super niche AI/GP technical content: I made this short video 6 years ago and was just delighted to discover that I still think it's okay! LMK if you have related ideas you'd like to discuss. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGJW...

An Even Quicker Introduction to the Push Programming Language

YouTube video by Lee Spector

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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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Indeed - we showed an AutoML could easily compete with a deep learning LSTM & significantly outperform it in efficiency academic.oup.com/bioinformati... #automl #deeplearning #machinelearning

Evaluating recommender systems for AI-driven biomedical informatics

AbstractMotivation. Many researchers with domain expertise are unable to easily apply machine learning (ML) to their bioinformatics data due to a lack of M

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Ming Tommy Tang@tommytang.bsky.social · last yr.

10/ Bonus reading: Why do tree-based models still outperform deep learning on tabular data? arxiv.org/abs/2207.08815

We're excited to share "The Cost of Getting Around: The Transportation Burdens of Lower-income residents in Western Massachusetts", a collaboration between MPG and @wayfinders.bsky.social for @massdot.bsky.social. Here's Quick thread of some of the key findings. www.mass.gov/doc/the-peop...

In my first interaction with ChatGPT 5 it provided four "key references," every one of which was hallucinated or broken in one or more ways. This was about a machine learning techique for which there is a lot of information online, and it totally butchered it.

the brain that can see a face in a wall outlet was always doomed to hear the voice of God in a markov chain

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

In my latest (and last!) column for Science’s Expert Voices series, I write about the reasons behind AI chatbots’ “deceptive” behaviors (and why Claude threatened a fictional CEO with blackmail). www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Why AI chatbots lie to us

A few weeks ago, a colleague of mine needed to collect and format some data from a website, and he asked the latest version of Anthropic’s generative AI system, Claude, for help. Claude cheerfully agr...

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Brutal to learn that Margaret Boden has passed. An absolute powerhouse in the areas of AI and creativity. leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2025/07...

GPEM Journal has a new CFP for a special issue in Generative AI and Evolutionary Computation for Software Engineering! This will be edited by Dominik Sobania See Leo's blogpost: gpemjournal.blogspot.com/2025/06/call... And special issue page: link.springer.com/collections/...

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📺 Introducing the Fediverse: a New Era of Social Media

A 4 minute video that aims to introduce the Fediverse to people not familiar with it

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Excited to be at: Genetic Programming Theory & Practice (GPTP) is a small, invitation-only workshop. This year’s GPTP will be hosted by Michigan State University in East Lansing, MI on June 05-07, 2025 gptp-workshop.com/index.html #artificialintelligence #geneticprogramming

This was a great conversation and I'm looking forward to the Q&A session! www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

I am thrilled to present an expert panel conversation I organized in… | Lucy Brock

I am thrilled to present an expert panel conversation I organized in conjunction with the Systems Engineering Department at la Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia. As a proponent of international educ...

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Five alarm fire: The State Department has effectively ended free speech for student visa holders.

Congratulations to Rich Sutton and Andrew Barto on receiving the Turing Award in recognition of their significant contributions to ML. I also stand with them: Releasing models to the public without the right technical and societal safeguards is irresponsible. www.ft.com/content/d8f8...

Turing Award winners warn over unsafe deployment of AI models

Two pioneers of reinforcement learning have won the $1mn prize from the Association for Computing Machinery

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It's not exactly what he just won the Turing award for, but some of the best conversations I've ever had about the nature of minds, brains and machines have been with Andy Barto. Congratulations Andy!! mastodon.acm.org/@ACM/1141102...

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Attached: 1 image Meet the recipients of the 2024 ACM A.M. Turing Award, Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton! They are recognized for developing the conceptual and algorithmic foundations of reinforcemen...

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Via a friend, from MIT’s alumni magazine. On the confluence of Lisp-based Object Oriented Programming systems and gourmet ice cream in Cambridge, MA in the 1970s. I joined Symbolics in 1982 working with Dan Weinreb and Howard Cannon, writing a lot of Lisp code with Flavors. #lisp #oops #symbolics

The mix-in revolution

How an ice cream innovator in Somerville influenced Lisp pioneers at the MIT AI Lab­—and made a lasting mark on programming.

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18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people: 18f.org