#evolvability — Public Fediverse posts

I feel in debt for the amazing discussions I had over 3 years with colleagues, too many to list here (but listed in the acks!) #ComplexSystems #NetworkScience #SystemsBiology #Evolution #NonEquilibrium #Evolvability 👉 Paper: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1... 8/

My #introduction needs a refresh.

I'm a #PhD student at the University of #Vermont, studying the #Evolution of #Evolvability. I'm into #AI, #ALife, #Biology, and #Philosophy, because I want to understand #life, #adaptation, and #intelligence using my native language of #ComputerScience. I share my musings and #research on my #blog. I love #science generally, and am full of bitchy #AcademicChatter.

I was a #SoftwareEngineer in #SiliconValley for many years, but left in 2021. I'm glad I did, and now I feel a bit betrayed by the #TechIndustry. I've been going back to my #FOSS roots, and gradually #DeGoogle ing my life. I still love to talk about #code #craft, #UX, and healthy #engineering #culture. Recently I've been enjoying #gpu #programming, mostly in #taichilang.

I have a wife and a #cat. I love #nature, #photography, #cooking, and #yoga.

All kinds of people are valid and worthy, but #trans people, folks on the #autism spectrum, and #bipoc get a shout out right now because they need our support.

Experimental evolution of evolvability.
#Evolution #Evolvability #LocalizedHypermutation
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adr2756

Insights into #evolutionary dynamics: Study reveals the evolution of #evolvability

#mightymicrobes #genetic_variation #selection

https://phys.org/news/2025-02-insights-evolutionary-dynamics-reveals-evolution.html

Evolution takes multiple paths to evolvability when facing environmental change.
#Evolution #Evolvability
https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2413930121

The# evolution of evolution itself: How evolution got so good at evolving

#meta_evolution #evolvability

https://phys.org/news/2025-02-evolution-good-evolving.html

Later this month, I’m going to present my first academic paper at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computing Conference (GECCO) in Melbourne, Australia. I’ll share the full paper once it’s officially published. For now, I wrote a blog post about the journey from experiment to paper, what this work means to me, and where I hope to go from here. If you’re curious about what the heck I’m actually doing with this Evolutionary Computation stuff, check it out!

https://thinkingwithnate.wordpress.com/2024/07/03/why-the-game-of-life-paper/

#science #programming #evolutionarycomputation #evolvability #gecco2024

.@bphmetz explores a #PLOSBiology study which uses in silico rewiring of #GeneticCodes & functional protein data to reveal a positive correlation between #robustness & protein #evolvability. Primer: https://plos.io/3K8lIP0 Paper: https://plos.io/4dXt85p

The standard #GeneticCode is robust, but is robustness good/bad for #evolution? @joshualevipayne &co use experimental data to show that robust genetic codes enhance protein #evolvability by producing smooth adaptive landscapes with few peaks #PLOSBiology https://plos.io/4dXt85p

Updated 4th Chapter of my "#EvolutionarySystems and #BioInspiredComputing " 2024 Class. #SelfOrganization #Criticality #Robustness #Resilience #Evolvability
https://casci.binghamton.edu/academics/i-bic/lec04.php

Updated 4th Chapter of my "#EvolutionarySystems and #BioInspiredComputing " 2024 Class. #SelfOrganization #Criticality #Robustness #Resilience #Evolvability
https://casci.binghamton.edu/academics/i-bic/lec04.php

Updated 4th Chapter of my "#EvolutionarySystems and #BioInspiredComputing " 2024 Class. #SelfOrganization #Criticality #Robustness #Resilience #Evolvability
https://casci.binghamton.edu/academics/i-bic/lec04.php

Updated 4th Chapter of my "#EvolutionarySystems and #BioInspiredComputing " 2024 Class. #SelfOrganization #Criticality #Robustness #Resilience #Evolvability
https://casci.binghamton.edu/academics/i-bic/lec04.php

Time for a new #introduction

I'm a #ComputerScience #PhD candidate at the #University of #Vermont (#UVM). There, I'm doing #AI and #ALife #research with Josh Bongard and many others. Themes include #evolution, #evolvability, innate #intelligence, #cells, #bodies, and #endosymbiosis.

I believe #science should be open and accessible, so I write about my ideas on a #Wordpress #blog, review relevant #books on #Goodreads, and publish my source code on #Github (links in my profile).

I'm passionate about #diversity, #socialjustice, #sustainability, #ethics, #philosophy, and all things #tech. In my personal life, I love #food, #cooking, #reading, #yoga, #hiking, #art, and #StarTrek.

I worked for many years on #Google #Search as a #software #engineer, #techlead, and #manager. I used to be proud of that, but lately I have concerns.

My favorite #programming language is #Python, but I know many more, and lately have been quite enjoying #CUDA #GPU programming in #cplusplus.

Wondering about #habitability (#PatternsOfSoftware) vs #evolvability. I think they point to the same thing but emphasise different aspects.

"Beyond genotype-phenotype maps: Toward a phenotype-centered perspective on evolution"

#conceptualframework #development #evolutionarytheory, #evolvability #genotypephenotypemap #maternaleffects
#phenotypicplasticity

Evolutionary biology is paying increasing attention to the mechanisms that enable phenotypic plasticity, evolvability, and extra-genetic inheritance

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/bies.202100225?campaign=woletoc

"Beyond genotype-phenotype maps: Toward a phenotype-centered perspective on evolution"

#conceptualframework #development #evolutionarytheory, #evolvability #genotypephenotypemap #maternaleffects
#phenotypicplasticity

Evolutionary biology is paying increasing attention to the mechanisms that enable phenotypic plasticity, evolvability, and extra-genetic inheritance

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/bies.202100225?campaign=woletoc

@sfmatheson @CastellanoED Our critique @rajon of Wagner's view of the asexual / 1-locus case is our model finding that #evolvability is dominated by the quality of the mutational neighborhood, not polymorphic spread across a genotype space https://academic.oup.com/genetics/article/193/4/1209/5935314

@sfmatheson @CastellanoED Yes I was referring to Kirchner & Gerhart. Wagner is more the other extreme, he generally models asexuals and/or 1-locus. We wrote a review piece cataloging how sex and number of genes make a difference to #evolvability arguments. https://www.cell.com/trends/genetics/fulltext/S0168-9525(10)00110-1

@CastellanoED An intriguing book that affects my thinking too. Have you read (or know of) The Arrival of the Fittest by Andreas Wagner? To some extent it answers the challenge.

#evolution
#evolvability

#Introduction again now that I have migrated to the evoeco instance. Some hashtags that align with my interests: #science
#evolution #popgen #biology #theory #proteins #bioinformatics #datascience #aging #prions #evolvability #robustness #astrobiology #epidemiology #COVID19 #economics #RiskAnalysis

Belated #introduction with some hashtags that align with my interests: #science
#evolution #popgen #biology #theory #proteins #bioinformatics #datascience #aging #prions #evolvability #robustness #astrobiology #epidemiology #COVID19 #economics #RiskAnalysis