Lecturer in Data Science and AI at Hull. Researcher in biology and AI. Purveyor of Evolution, Inclusive Fitness, and other heresies. https://teapawt.net/t.co/LSkkV4jqSD
Joined March 2015
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(1/2) Can peace evolve? Advantaged leaders prefer conflict and shunt the cost to followers. Increasing the democratic power of followers leads to less conflict: nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
#ecology #evolution #gametheory
(2/2) A lot of graft and vision from @collectiveEcol and Kingsley (who is wisely not on X)
biosciences.exeter.ac.uk/sta…
together with @DanFranksRsrch @FayeJThompson @DarrenPCroft @patrick_a_green @collectiveEcol
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Cool approach to #LLM output optimisation. Do an evolutionary search using the LLM to evaluate fitness and generate variants.
Not sure how to view the consequences of using the LLM to generate and evaluate.
github.com/CarperAI/OpenELM/…
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New paper out with @StuWest8
The first paper in my research plan to try flesh out the theory on between species major transitions.
royalsocietypublishing.org/d…
nature.com/articles/s42003-0…
Paper on optic flow finally out! Trigger fish use visual density to estimate distance and control speed. And they do it in a slightly different way to terrestrial animals!
@NASA nice to have a kids question to the astronauts be cutoff so we could have 30 mins of hold music. Hope the kids got their answer at least!
I like how this adds to the confusion.
theguardian.com/science/2022…
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@FrontiersIn how can I see the full ethics assessment for this? Kannic acid induced seizures seem a bit excessive.
frontiersin.org/articles/10.…
Finding myself drawing this graph for job talks/teaching a lot so made a legit sim instead! R in 1D showing why indiscriminate altruism can work and how negative geometric relatedness exists far from the focal individual (position 500) inspired by old emails with @dbkrupp
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Need to add poetry section to the writing course @StuWest8 I will never forget this study.
link.springer.com/article/10…
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terrytao.wordpress.com/2021/…
Seems like an interesting concept, makes mental maths with probabilities much nicer especially when evaluating the benefits of an intervention.
Full model with clumping trait (black centre = sticky, white = non-stick) and altruism (the greener it is the gooder it is). Plus some bonus spatial structure so i could practice collision resolution.
youtube.com/watch?v=neUgUbaL…
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altruism + stickiness on the same trait so little greenbeards being slowly subsumed by white defectors.
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Working on an altruism clumping+cooperation visualisation. Just got collisions to work properly! Now to work out stickiness...
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Wild parrot in Cambridge! I've been stalking him(?) these last few weeks. Think it's an Eastern Rosella hybrid? Seems to be doing well on its own for the last month or so.
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Chasing a bug lead me to compress 10 lines to 1:
`r = sum(kron(x', 1 ./x) .== 1)/(length(x)^2)`
Where x is a list of integer species IDs then r is the relatedness in the group (for certain definitions).
Celebrating with tea.
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So after a week of trying pandoc+atom, pandoc+vscode, zettlr and few other markdown editors I have given up and retreated to TeX. Has anyone had success with markdown? #AcademicTwitter #markdown
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If only journals would respect this fact of life in the face of my wild speculations youtu.be/30ulA1zhtjc
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Not sure I would call this domestication but it's a very cool mutualism. nature.com/articles/s41467-0…