Biota's Artificial Life Podcast
by Tom Barbalet
Tom Barbalet interviews artificial life developers about their previous, current and future development and artificial life theorists about the history and direction of artificial life
Episodes
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Biota Special: Jeffrey Ventrella (Audio only)
This is one of the last BiotaCasts, the feed is being moved to YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@LastMonkeyStanding
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Biota Special: Gerald de Jong (Audio only)
This is one of the last BiotaCasts, the feed is being moved to YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@LastMonkeyStanding
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Returning to the Discussion [May 19, 2024]
Tom catches up with Dr. Imy Khan.
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A Discussion With Imy Khan - Hiroki! [August 13, 2023]
Tom welcomes back Imy Khan to talk about his time in Japan.
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A Discussion With Steve Grand [July 22, 2023]
Tom welcomes back Steve Grand to talk about Grandroids amongst other things.
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A Discussion With Imy Khan - Music and Roleplaying Games [July 16, 2023]
Tom welcomes back Imy Khan to talk about music and roleplaying games.
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Jeffrey Ventrella: Walkers and War [July 8, 2023]
Tom welcomes on Jeffrey Ventrella to talk about their various projects.
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A Discussion With Imy Khan - Introductions [June 24, 2023]
Tom welcomes on Imy Khan to talk about their various projects.
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Biota Lost Recording: Noble Ape Seminar at MSU [July 27, 2012]
This is a talk given primarily to biologists on the Noble Ape Simulation. The academics who don't introduce themselves are Prof. Fred Dyer, Dr. Aaron Wagner and Prof. Robert Pennock.
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Biota Flashback: Douglas Rushkoff [July 15, 2011]
Celebrating fifteen years of the Noble Ape development, Tom chats with Douglas Rushkoff about how to set up a project like Noble Ape now, how things have changed since Cyberia, simulations, open source and the human versus the project.
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Biota Special: A New Philosophy of the Mind with Jeffrey Ventrella [April 30, 2023]
Tom welcomes back on Jeffrey Ventrella to discuss a number of ideas.
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Biota Special: A New Biota with Bruce Damer [April 22, 2023]
Tom welcomes back on Dr. Bruce Damer to discuss a number of ideas.
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Post-Biota: Where Now? [November 6, 2022]
Tom puts out to the community the question of what to do to regather the community.
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Simulcast. The Loneliness Of Simulation Creation [October 30, 2022]
Tom discribes the loneliness of simulation creation.
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Post-Biota: ApeSDK on Thunder [October 4, 2022]
Tom talks about the process of developing simulation to try to solicit discussion from other developers.
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Chat with Anton Mikhailov [May 21, 2022]
Anton has built a clock and Tom talks about simulating Sea Lion.
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Hello World [April 24, 2022]
Tom asks if you have something to share?
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Anti-Peacocking [January 21, 2020]
Anton hit a roadblock with the Moveable Feast Machine due to some GPU compiler issues. Tom has been working on a project called libdeep to answer some interesting questions about how to make software that is useful for a variety of folks. They digress into the Roomba. How good is machine learning...
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Biota [December 8, 2019]
Tom provides a footnote to Biota.
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Nerd Obsessive Enterprises [August 9, 2019]
Anton has been porting Movable Feast Machine to the GPU. They discuss work waivers. Tom discusses what an iPhone app means. How about Patreon? Anton and Tom finish the podcast talking about Kickstarters too.
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Creating the Surroundings [August 5, 2019]
Tom welcomes back on Dr. Bruce Damer. Tom asks for Bruce's thoughts on the Wikipedia situation. Bruce talks about the Biota Institute in understanding the origin of life and a new company, Epsilonics. They discuss Tom Ray's criticism of artificial life for doing open ended simulation. What has...
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Galapagotchi with Gerald de Jong [July 6, 2019]
Gerald de Jong has been in and out of creating simulations over the past eight years but he's returned to work on Galapagotchi. Tom tries very hard to create distinctions between springs and tensegrity structures but Gerald isn't having any of it. Gerald gives a definition of Galapagotchi. How…
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Moveable Fiesta [June 28, 2019]
Tom welcomes on Professor David Ackley who introduces his interests in artificial life and how he developed Evolutionary Reinforcement Learning. Can this work map back into biology? What does it take to get this kind of cross disciplinary collaboration? Tom asks about Professor Ackley's…
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Veritable Feast [June 7, 2019]
Anton returns to talk about Lenia https://chakazul.github.io/Lenia/JavaScript/Lenia.html, David H. Ackley's Movable Feast Machine https://movablefeastmachine.org. Tom and Anton do a deep dive into the many flavors of parallelism Tom has used with Noble Ape. Anton also likes GPU programming. If…
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GenePool Revisited [May 25, 2019]
Tom Barbalet welcomes back Jeffrey Ventrella to talk about his ongoing projects, GenePool and Wiggle Planet, with longtime co-developer, Brian Dodd. They talk about open source and Jeffrey's other projects: a book on fractal curves and taking artificial life to the traditional art world.
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Surviving Notability, Simulation as a Service and Self-Replicating Steam Engines [May 19, 2019]
Tom Barbalet welcomes back Tim Taylor to talk about how we communicate on the field of artificial life. They also discuss Tim's ideas on simulation as a service and Tim's new book on self-replicating machine discussions through history.
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Deletions, Simulation as a Service, ApeScript and the Curse [May 13, 2019]
Tom Barbalet talks with Anton Mikhailov on a variety of topics. Will they continue the podcast after the meeting? Time will tell.
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The Secret Life of Simulators and Bees [April 26, 2019]
Tom Barbalet talks with Anton Mikhailov about his bee simulation, moving it open source and some of the historical pitfalls in making artificial life your day job. If you would like to ask further questions and topics for Anton and Tom, please email barbalet at gmail dot com. We'd really…
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Long Funk Simulcast 51. A Shared Language in nobleape.io [March 31, 2019]
Tom discusses the background and potential of Noble Ape in the cloud with JSON. http://www.longfunk.com/archive.html#51
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Long Funk Simulcast 45. Bob Mottram and Leeds [February 12, 2019]
Noble Ape banter is a real luxury. http://www.longfunk.com/archive.html#45
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Restarting the Biota Podcast [January 26, 2019]
Tom Barbalet is interested in restarting the podcast but he needs your help. barbalet at gmail dot com for more!
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Announcement: biotacast.org is the New Location For the Podcast
The Biota Podcast's home has moved to http://biotacast.org/
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Simulcast: Early Morning Weather Development [April 1, 2018]
Tom Barbalet, the creator of Noble Ape, talks about what he's working on at 3am.
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Simulcast Long Funk 1. Introducing the Format [December 9, 2017]
Tom introduces the podcast by discussing his many podcasts and what he has learnt from all these recording. To subscribe go to http://www.longfunk.com/
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Simulcast: Tom Barbalet and Bruce Damer Have a Chat [May 3, 2015]
Originally intended for Bruce's Levity Zone podcast, the following recording seemed a better fit for those who were artificial life savvy. Bruce concludes the conversation with how he may be doing something with deep computation in the future after all.'
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Simulcast: Crime Fighting Noble Apes [February 02, 2015]
Tom Barbalet presents a new project using Noble Ape to provide analysis of murder crimes with agent and language simulation.
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Untitled Project #3: Sophistry All the Way Down [November 25, 2014]
Tom starts the discussion talking about the Forensics Science book. http://www.meetup.com/Conscious-in-the-Cloud/events/218785595/ is the meet-up for Tom's talk. What about the philosophy of the deteriorating mind? Don't look for qualia in the trees in Australia, they are in the National...
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Untitled Project #2: Kant or Won't [November 11, 2014]
Liz and Tom start discussing an improved sound and recovered health. Liz plugs her next book project and Tom talks about his mis-spent yoof. Tom poses a metaphysics problem from simulation. They digress into Kant. Science fiction provide mixed blessings as does virtual reality. They explore…
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Untitled Project #1: Pilot (Sample) [October 21, 2014]
Tom Barbalet and Liz Swan launch a pilot podcast exploring what happened to artificial life?
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Simulcast: Is Consciousness in the Cloud Evolving? [February 25, 2014]
Reese Jones, Tom Barbalet and a number of other folk provide a discussion around what is consciousness in the context of the internet and cloud computing.
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Special: What do You Want in 2014? [December 24, 2013]
With the number of listeners to this podcast, Tom makes a plea for content in 2014. What would you like to hear? Would you like to submit audio? Please get in contact (tom at nobleape dot com)
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Biota Special: The EvoGrid and the Genesis Engine [October 28, 2013]
Dr. Bruce Damer presents a talk on the movement from the EvoGrid to the Genesis Engine.
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Simulcast: Tom Barbalet on Self-Conscious Noble Apes [October 28, 2013]
Tom Barbalet presents the final talk at Conscious in the Cloud in response to the prior Conscious in the Cloud talk with Larry Yaeger.
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Biota Special: Artificial Life in the Cloud [August 19, 2013]
Tom Barbalet brings the C-Realm's KMO and Polyworld's Larry Yaeger together to discuss artificial life in the cloud. The audience presents questions to the three participants and the ethics of artificial life in the cloud is explored.
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Biota Special: A Chat Between Three Toms [June 29, 2013]
Three Toms get together to discuss Reddit and artificial life, two of the Toms introduce their backgrounds, Tom Barbalet answers questions from Reddit on Noble Ape and they talk about how to create a substantial artificial life project with integrity.
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Biota Interview: Stephan Rafler on Smoothlife [October 20, 2012]
Tom chats Stephan Rafler on Smoothlife: a cellular automata simulation with smooth time and space.
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Biota Special: Dr. Bruce Damer [August 11, 2012]
Tom chats with Bruce about the EvoGrid, the ChemoGrid and Genesis engines.
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Biota Special: Roy Plotnick [July 30, 2012]
Tom Barbalet chats with Prof. Roy Plotnick about his work and his use of artificial life. They talk about more complex agent algorithms and what more Roy would like to see from the community.
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Biota Special: Artificial Life Hobbyist Birds-of-a-Feather, ALIFE XIII [July 19, 2012]
Tom Barbalet presents the hobbyist get-to-gether at the ALIFE XIII conference. (This is noise reduced but otherwise unedited audio.)
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Biota Special: Teaching Artificial Life for Industry, ALIFE XIII [July 19, 2012]
Tom Barbalet presents teaching artificial life for industry. Please note this talk was particularly poorly attended and thus had to be cut short. If you haven't heard the first workshop's audio on Artificial Life in Industry please listen to it first. Similarly if you are interested in the...
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Tom Barbalet interviews artificial life developers about their previous, current and future development and artificial life theorists about the history and direction of artificial life
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