Horizon episode about Alife

I just found a great posting on you tube. It’s an episode of Horizon, an old BBC series, about alife. It describes most of the things from Steven Levi’s book: Artificial life: the quest for a new creation. I was disapointed Tom Ray was not included.

I know I haven’t posted anything in a while; that’s because I decided to stop trying to post things every 4 days. It was lowering the quality of the content and it was a waste of time considering how busy I am with University. So from now on I’ll keep posting stuff, but stuff that I really find relevant for this blog.  

 

Does the brain work like Google?

Here is an article about his on New Scientist:

http://technology.newscientist.com/article/mg19626335.500

And here is Tom Griffith’s page, the guy that came up with this conclusion. His paper on it can be found below:

http://cocosci.berkeley.edu/tom/papers/retrieval.pdf

The paper also explains in detail how the PageRank algrithm is “supposed” to work (no one knows except Google).