Lee Spector

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

YouTube video by Lee Spector An Even Quicker Introduction to the Push Programming Language

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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/...

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

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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/...

📺 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

news.elenarossini.com/fediverse-vi...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

Assn for Computing Machinery (@ACM@mastodon.acm.org) 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...

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...

I enjoyed Lisp flavors back in the day, and now live a short walk from wonderful Herrell's ice cream in Northampton MA.

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.

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

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

The Silencing Science Tracker is a joint initiative of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law & the Climate Science Legal Defense Fund. It tracks government attempts to restrict or prohibit research, education or discussion climate.law.columbia.edu/Silencing-Sc... #science #research

Is the evolution metaphor still necessary or even useful for genetic programming? - Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines -

Is the evolution metaphor still necessary or even useful for genetic programming? link.springer.com/article/10.1... #geneticprogramming #machinelearning #artificialintelligence #datascience

Lee Spector (@lspector@pixelfed.social) Attached: 2 images

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Output: Once was a time when life simple life simple was. Was beautiful. Unpredictable. Unforgettable. Beautiful. Unpredictable. Dream.

HELENA: Doctor, has Radius a soul?
DR. GALL: He's got something nasty.
- R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), by Karel Čapek

Particularity We describe a design principle for adaptive systems under which adaptation is driven by particular challenges that the environment poses, as opposed to average or otherwise aggregated measures of...

It's worth considering how this applies in many domains, ranging from grading to evolution. And for others working in #AI, how it relates to lexicase selection and "particularity" more generally: arxiv.org/abs/2306.06812