Estimating the Energy Cost of (Artificial) Evolution

This short discussion paper sets out to explore the question: what is the energy cost of evolving complex artificial life? The paper takes an unconventional approach by first estimating the energy cost of natural evolution and, in particular, the species Homo Sapiens Sapiens. http://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/titles/content/alife14/ch143.html

Computer Science and Engineering Curriculum Through Open Courses?

I have been interested in going back to school for some time now, but have been stuck weighing the benefits against additional student debt. I was curious to determine how much of the curriculum could be accomplished through open courses and self-directed learning. I took the EE/CS curriculum, and cross referenced MIT’s OpenCourseWare to identify …

I Feel The Need. The Need for… C. (Arduino Uno Programming in C)

I read a great post from Balau’s blog related to programming in C with Arduino. It was very helpful, however, as a Windows 8 user I had to make a few tweaks. Download the windows version of the AVR compiler, here http://sourceforge.net/projects/winavr/files/latest/download?source=files and run the exe. Download this copy of avrdude http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/avrdude/avrdude-6.1.tar.gz unzip and then …