This page will be updated with news, stories and events related to the Cell Matrix, the Songline Processor and EEXIST, as well as with information about the website itself.
28 Sept 2017
A draft of a text on EEXIST is now available on http://book.songlinesystems.com/book.pdf The PDF is free and published under a Creative Commons license, meaning you can download it, share it, etc. If you want a printed copy, you can buy one through Amazon for $18.99. A link will be provided here once it's available and the book has been proofed.
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8 June 2017 PM
Evolved frequency detector: input [0,4] oscillates every 4 or 8 ticks; output [24,28] is 0 for faster frequency, 1 for lower.
Cleaned up EEXIST API code to add cursors to detail pane, eliminate null-pointer exceptions, display x loc vs. bin #, and prevent scrolling below x-zoom=1.
Frequency detector (ea3) includes a delay command ("d msec") for pausing between sim steps. Useful for monitoring how the system develops into its final state.
8 June 2017
The genome is a series of floating point number. I tried re-writing the genome history using only 2 digits after the decimal point, and the circuits no longer behave correctly. Tried 3 digits, still not working. At 6 digits it works perfectly. Is this solution chaotic?
7 June 2017
Evolved 3-input NAND gate. Since the entire system is devoid of chemicals other than the inputs, an input of (0,0,0) will necessarily have no effect. So I've changed the 1/0 setting as follow: INPUT low=5, high=20. OUTPUT: below 10=low, above 15=high
6 June 2017
Evolved a 3-input XOR. Feels like this is pretty easy now.
5 June 2017
Finally evolved a 2-input XOR gate. Bumping the mutation rate to 5% seems to have made a big difference!
21 May 2017
Beginning with gen 20, every 10th gen also uses out-of-band score to control survival/mating.
20 May 2017
Changed input/output regions to match location of each gene (0-4, 4-8, etc.) This seemed to significantly improve evolvability
19 May 2017
Running in-band tests and using score to control mating etc; plus out-of-band tests just to see how they do. Some of the out-of-band tests actually seem plretty close.
14 May 2017
Evolving XOR with random tests: many reach 5600; one reached 6264. Doesn't seem very reproducible. The prior 6400 was probably matching the intended output pattern, rather than responding to input (and was also when both sdFlow and equilibrium were set to true). Questions: - can we re-evolve *without* the inputs changing? If not, what is it responding to? Is it doubling a frequency? - Then, can we evolve more-complex patterns???
22 Mar 2017
Re-worked the EEXIST Code page to better highlight the API. Heading towards a better code dump for sample drivers.
20 Mar 2017
Added links to API how-to videos. Also started Research page.
12 Mar 2017
Added links to the full V1 API including sample code, documentation, and a standalone playground for experimenting with various knob settings. All links can be found on the EEXIST API page.
7 Mar 2017
Initial API uploaded to GitLab
Uploaded and linked to MOD-88 resources; slides from Villanova talk; and book chapter on self-organizing digital systems.
Linked more old software and papers. Cleaned up inconsistencies across pages.
Added a Resources section to the Cell Matrix area. Uploaded and linked numerous papers, slides and references to other work.
Added a NEWS section; modified sections of the Cell Matrix area. Uploaded and linked a pair of videos given at PSU; video of N. Macias' dissertation defense; and approximately 18 hours worth of video from a semester-long Cell Matrix class given at Virginia Tech several years ago.
Initial version of website completed, with some links in place to online resources.