Among other things I’m an AI researcher interested in mechanical creativity (aura preserving) — more broadly, in the phenomenon of emergence in engineered systems.
Research Notes
An Artificial Life Anthology (In progress) 51,842 words on the history of artificial life, cellular automata, non-equilibrium statistical mechanics, developmental biology, evolutionary computation, complexity, information theory, chaos theory and the origins of order. 
Garden of Eden States (In progress) 4,428 words on unreachable configurations, McKennan eschatology, irreversibility, the Ax–Grothendieck theorem, and the arrow of time in cellular automata. Projects
⍼ Nonperiodic Tiling (2020) Selected Press
⍼ Photos Are Creating a Real-Time Food-Price Index Wired 2017 ⍼ Future of Price Statistics World Bank 2016 ⍼ Big Data’s Little Brother NYT 2013 ⍼ Premise Taps Into Hunger for Real-Time Data Financial Times 2013 Selected Publications
⍼ Fine-Grained Class Label Markup of Search Queries ACL 2011 ⍼ Cross-Cutting Models of Lexical Semantics EMNLP 2011 ⍼ Multi-Prototype Vector-Space Models of Word Meaning NAACL 2010 ⍼ Spherical Topic Models ICML 2010 ⍼ A Mixture Model with Sharing for Lexical Semantics EMNLP 2010 ⍼ Latent Variable Models of Concept-Attribute Attachment ACL-IJCNLP 2009 ⍼ Weakly-Supervised Acquisition of Labeled Class Instances Using Graph Random Walks EMNLP 2008 ⍼ Online Kernel Selection for Bayesian Reinforcement Learning ICML 2008 ⍼ Acquiring Evolvability through Adaptive Representations GECCO 2007 ⍼ Coevolving Strategies for General Game Playing IEEE CIG 2007 ⍼ Evolving Reusable Neural Modules GECCO 2004