The Ebb and Flow
In June, July, and August I was almost daily engaged in the application of evolutionary computation to glitch classification at LIGO. I worked extensively with Marco Cavaglia and his students Hunter,...
View ArticleKaroo GP and TensorFlow
Yesterday I received a revision to Karoo GP which now includes the Python machine learning library TensorFlow. The 10,000 row dataset which consumed 48 hours for 30 generations of evolution on a...
View ArticleA mantra for the New Year
Seek intellectual stimulation. Express creativity in multiple forms. Promote science education as the best hope for the next generation. Never stop learning or challenging the norms.
View ArticleThe spoils of war
In our effort to come in from the cold, we forgot the pleasure of growing warm. In avoiding the heat of a sweltering afternoon, we lost a view to the setting sun. In protecting ourselves from nearly...
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A return to Hawai’i, a photo essay
There is an amusement park quality to the Big Island of Hawai’i, a series of microcosms and ecosystems juxtaposed such that tropics and snow are little more than an hour by car. You need only travel...
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Stirring the pot
As with so many of us who feel a kind of deep pain when injustice is served, I have struggled to make sense of what unfolded this past two months. What I witnessed often felt too far removed from my...
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Into the Blue
The swell The swell of the sea was visible from the height of the forty foot cliff at South Point, Hawai’i. Movement of water not as white caps nor ripples, for the surface was relatively calm....
View ArticleThe Self-Aware Toilet Bowl
It happens nearly every day. At the airport, the office, the movie theater. Not just to me, but to everyone I know and observe. We have all sat upon the porcelain throne, anticipating the auto-flush to...
View ArticleWho is driving whom?
I am greeted by an orchestral movement with the press of the power button. I press the pedal and I am warned to apply my seatbelt. I loose my hands from the wheel to momentarily scratch my chin, and...
View ArticleOver the Edge
When we live in fear, we see only failure. When we fail, we protect ourselves. When we are protected, we feel afraid. And we spiral down, down, down, until we have pushed the one thing we...
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The Ultimate Camping Subaru
Your Office in the Woods When we think of car camping, we often picture a tent or open air sun shade, cooler, cook stove, folding chairs, and mountain bikes atop an SUV or minivan. Car camping allows...
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Where Superstition welcomes the wary mind
As summer presses spring into a memory, I find balance between the increasing heat and discomfort with nights and mornings on the edge of the Superstition Wilderness. Just one hour from downtown...
View ArticleWhen proposals are all that I do
Research has its moments of intrigue, challenge, even thrill. But this year, these moments are lost to the effort of writing. Proposal after proposal after proposal, I am a kind of salesman who hopes...
View ArticleFaster, easier, better.
What is this fascination with faster, easier, better? I have heard it said that biology is lazy, that all creatures pursue that which requires the least energy expenditure. Perhaps entropy is the true...
View ArticleCounting Raindrops in Ireland
From the passenger seat of this rented Opal, I watch seagulls contend for strings of seaweed and scraps of bait tossed overboard from a passing fishing vessel, the only one to enter Reen Harbour this...
View ArticleThe Seasons of our Emotions
There are as many faces as there are emotions, each powerful for what it conveys. Yet we wear them as though for the first time, unaware of their power to affect those we love. If our smiles are the...
View ArticleTensorFlow enabled Genetic Programming
GECCO ’17 Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3084216 Abstract: “Genetic Programming, a kind of evolutionary computation and...
View ArticleHow to Install TensorFlow on OSX 10.11
If you are coming to OSX from Ubuntu, the installation of applications can go smoothly, as Apple intends, or leave you beyond the threshold of frustration, in a dismal state of frustration, rage, and...
View ArticleCounting Raindrops in Germany
Again I have promised myself to find sleep before 1 am. Again, I am awake, working to catch-up with my life after the intense experience of the International Space University, Space Studies Program in...
View ArticleThe Elephant, the Lion, and the Skies of the Karoo
Everyone desires a safe space, a home base, a place to return to when everything else in life is unsettled. For some, this is a certain room in the family home. For others, a timeshare overlooking the...
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