December 2008
3 posts
FaceMaker: making faces with artificial selection →
“Each of your votes helps to slowly transform abstract shapes into human faces. This is evolution driven by artificial selection.”
via reddit.com
L-systems on an FPGA →
“The advantage of using FPGAs is that the celerity and volume of calculations is greatly enhanced due to the application specific nature of the hardware, and the parallelism in calculation that occurs when allowed. This yields significant advantages for highly iterative, calculation intensive models that take significant calculation time for a serial processor, but happen almost instantly...
Scientists extract images directly from brain →
“Researchers from Japan’s ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories have developed new brain analysis technology that can reconstruct the images inside a person’s mind and display them on a computer monitor, it was announced on December 11. According to the researchers, further development of the technology may soon make it possible to view other people’s dreams while they sleep.” - via Seed...