Among other things I’m an AI researcher interested in mechanical creativity (aura preserving) — more broadly, in the phenomenon of emergence in engineered systems. At Adobe I work directly with artists pushing the boundaries of what's possible with generative AI.
Research Notes
An Artificial Life Anthology (In progress)55,649 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)5,207 words on unreachable configurations, irreversibility, the Ax–Grothendieck theorem, Paolo Soleri, McKennan eschatology, and the arrow of time in cellular automata.Projects
⍼Nonperiodic Tiling (2020)A fast rust+wasm+webgpu-based renderer for non-periodic tilings of the plane - "quasicrystals" in physics. Each tiling is fully deterministic and possesses long-range order but lacks periodic translational symmetry.⍼FragmentsSelected Press
⍼Photos Are Creating a Real-Time Food-Price IndexWired 2017⍼Future of Price StatisticsWorld Bank 2016⍼Big Data’s Little BrotherNYT 2013⍼Premise Taps Into Hunger for Real-Time DataFinancial Times 2013Selected Publications
⍼Fine-Grained Class Label Markup of Search QueriesACL 2011⍼Cross-Cutting Models of Lexical SemanticsEMNLP 2011⍼Multi-Prototype Vector-Space Models of Word MeaningNAACL 2010⍼Spherical Topic ModelsICML 2010⍼A Mixture Model with Sharing for Lexical SemanticsEMNLP 2010⍼Latent Variable Models of Concept-Attribute AttachmentACL-IJCNLP 2009⍼Weakly-Supervised Acquisition of Labeled Class Instances Using Graph Random WalksEMNLP 2008⍼Online Kernel Selection for Bayesian Reinforcement LearningICML 2008⍼Acquiring Evolvability through Adaptive RepresentationsGECCO 2007⍼Coevolving Strategies for General Game PlayingIEEE CIG 2007⍼Evolving Reusable Neural ModulesGECCO 2004