• Meeting time fixed – 10-12 on Wednesdays for at least this semester.
• Fly documentation revision(s) – recently updated by Tom.

Reading for next week:

• http://blog.8thlight.com/uncle-bob/2013/05/27/TheTransformationPriorityPremise.html

Agenda for sometime in the next few meetings:

• Clojush tutorial.

Other agenda items:

• Generalization
• Lee’s pucks agent environment – which is going to be used in Lee’s class, though the intention’s to also use this for general ALife stuff.

Clojush 2.0 (.3)

• Currently ~2 weeks old

Generalization:

• Long-term issue on generalization of evolved programs.
• The median problem
• High potential for overfitting
• Significance of “validation” data
• Potential resonance with Kalman filtering? Where Kalman filters can help converge on a global optimum even though only subsets of the data are seen at a time.
• The question of parsimony
• Simplification as a post-processing step. (Another interesting potential resonance with Wavelet Shrinkage)