Carnivale! 2 Aug 2009 The Carnival of Evolution 14 is up at Quintessence of Dust. Go read some great articles. Evolution
Creationism and Intelligent Design Travel Diary 11: Notre Dame 3 Nov 2009 This conference is turning out to be interesting, in a kind of weird way. I am very much the agnostic in the Catholic lion’s den, but so far the lions haven’t so much as looked my way hungrily. I did have an interesting discussion tonight with Simon Conway Morris, and… Read More
Ecology and Biodiversity Liveblogging the conference: Roberta Millstein 14 Mar 2008 Roberta is a great philosopher from UC Davis and she’s talking about the notion of populations. Read More
Ecology and Biodiversity A melange 14 Jan 2009 Chris Nedin at Ediacaran has a nice discussion of the metaphor of the adaptive landscape, “Climbing Pit Improbable“. It should be noted that the genetic notion of adaptive peaks is exactly the same thing as the AI notion of gradient descent learning., which inverts the “landscape” the way Chris describes…. Read More