Re: Current Status of Fluidiom

On 5/19/06, Gordon P. Hemsley <[email protected]> wrote:
> Also, trying to regain my bearings with the software, I went looking
> through the archives of the mailing list(s), and I noticed there were
> some valid questions that were never really addressed (at least as far
> as I could tell).

sorry.  i'm busy juggling the rest of my life as well.  do you have
anything specific in mind?

> On a separate note, any chance on a quick description of all the
> evolution settings and of the labels on the Ancestry page (which, in
> response to one of those aforementioned unanswered questions, I
> believe is useful and should be kept). What does it mean when a
> specimen has "(saved)" next to its number? What does it mean when it
> says "Empty" instead of a number?

to answer these questions:

first of all, the whole ancestry page in the application is something
i don't even tend to look at anymore, so i don't think it's important
enough to maintain.  originally i thought it would be an interesting
way to navigate, but it wasn't.

when a specimen is "saved" it means that your client program has
decided to save one of the members of the population on the server for
future reference.  only the saved ones end up on the server, and the
intermediate ones disappear from the memory of your client program
eventually when they perish.  i have it set up to save once every
minute during evolution.

i believe that "empty" indicates something that shouldn't happen, an error.

> I look forward to the future of Fluidiom and artifical evolution.

some interesting things are happening:

* i've been invited to speak at a summer school at the free university
of amsterdam, although unfortunately i won't be able to make it
personally so instead i will be making a movie of my presentation
which will be played.  (anyone interested in demo-ing in Amsterdam ??)
http://www.decoi2006.nl/

* i'm writing another demonstration proposal for the BNAIC 2006
conference, which is where i won the best demo prize last year.  this
gets me working on the software again, because it would be fun to
present something new.
http://como.vub.ac.be/bnaic2005/

--=20
Gerald de Jong
[email protected]
http://fluidiom.sourceforge.net


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