Tim Taylor
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Scientist, author & coder of artificial life tech/open-ended evolution. Board Member @alifeofficial / Assoc Examiner @LondonU / Independent Researcher 🌈
Edinburgh, Scotland
Joined March 2013
RT @CejkovaJitka: The 40th anniversary of the @ALifeConf conference series is approaching. Please contribute your memories and archival mat…
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The npj Complexity journal has an open call for a new collection topic "Unnatural Histories: Investigating the Improbable with Experimental Evolution and Artificial Life". Accepting submissions from now up to 12 Sept 2025
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I'm happy to announce that the free online version of "Rise of the Self-Replicators" has now been updated to the 2nd edition of the author-formatted version of the book, which includes the 2024 afterword as an additional chapter. Find the online version at
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@johnny_83 It was published in Methodos, an Italian journal (no longer in business). A small number of libraries still have it.
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To be clear, I don't have any money to pay for a translation, but I anticipate we would get this published in a journal with an introduction authored by me (and the translator if they wished) and with the translator listed as a co-author.
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My plan would be to have the English translation published in a journal
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I'm enjoying reading @MitchWaldrop's venerable account of the origin and early years of @sfiscience, published in 1992. Wonderful to learn that John Holland developed his first classifier system in machine code (not even assembly language) on his Commodore computer at home 👏
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.@decarpentier_nl used a genetic algorithm to evolve the linkage design for his walking wooden coffee table, the Carpentopod. The result is beautiful
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RT @alifeofficial: ⭐️We are seeking proposals to host the Conference on Artificial Life in 2026 and 2027. ⭐️ 🟢Conferences should be a hybr…
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@rudytheelder @remisussan Thanks very much @rudytheelder! I was about to ask you whether it was still available 😀
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@BertChakovsky I do have a usb 3.5" disk drive hidden away somewhere. I'm definitely going to try getting the contents from the disk and hopefully plugging it into an emulator. Will keep you posted!
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It was fantastic to have the opportunity of a long discussion yesterday with the one and only @kenneth0stanley about open endedness and open-ended evolution. Many thanks to @barbalet for hosting on his Last Monkey Standing channel!
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RT @kenneth0stanley: A very different conversation than the usual: I joined @barbalet for his Last Monkey Standing podcast, along with lead…
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