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Hiroki Sayama

@hirokisayama.bsky.social

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What I do not understand, I can still create. -- unknown アメリカで大学教員やっています．いつもヘンなことばかり考えています．意識低い系．

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Binghamton Center of Complex Systems (CoCo) @binghamtoncoco.bsky.social · 1h

Reminder: Sidi's CoCo talk tomorrow!

Binghamton Center of Complex Systems (CoCo) @binghamtoncoco.bsky.social · 11d

Next CoCo seminar by Sidi Deng on October 15th!

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Complexity Digest @cxdig.bsky.social · 16h

Governance as a Complex, Networked, Democratic, Satisfiability Problem: Juniper Lovato

Watch at: vimeo.com

sco.lt

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Network Science Society @netscisociety.bsky.social · 15h

This month, no colloquium but a special session about careers in network science! Join us and an all-star panel on October 29. Register here for a Zoom link: iu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Binghamton Center of Complex Systems (CoCo) @binghamtoncoco.bsky.social · 20h

Some photos from CoCo Student-Faculty Mixer on October 1st

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Conference on Complex Systems @css-conference.bsky.social · 4d

Did you enjoy #CCS2025? Then you'll love #CCS2026!

Join us October 9–16 for attending the largest #ComplexSystems conference, where beautiful landscapes🍂, brilliant minds👩‍🔬, and our vibrant culture🎠 will converge in one place: @binghamtonu.bsky.social

#CallForSatellites coming soon...🫣

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Complexity Cat 🐱 @amahury.bsky.social · 4d

And this is how #ALIFE2025 ends! See you next year in Waterloo, Canada for #ALIFE2026!

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Elias Najarro @najarro.science · 4d

Our (in the making) paper combining morphogenetic fields and neural cellular cellular automata with @miltonllera.bsky.social, Eleni Nisioti & @risi.bsky.social got a little award at @alife2025.bsky.social #ALife2025 💮✨

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Alyssa M Adams @alyssa-m-adams.bsky.social · 4d

💐🌺🌷From the bottom of my heart, thank you all so much for a wonderful conference. You all make it amazing— each and everyone one of you. I am so lucky to have met you 🌸✨🩷 #alife2025 #alife

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Hiroki Sayama @hirokisayama.bsky.social · 4d

Still alive in Japan

Hiroki Sayama @hirokisayama.bsky.social · 4d

Sadly, I have to leave from #ALIFE2025 now
It has been absolutely inspiring several days here in Kyoto
Many many many many thanks to the organizers!!

Hiroki Sayama @hirokisayama.bsky.social · 4d

#ALIFE2025 final keynote Anna Ciaunica discusses the importance of bodies and embodiment in understanding life and mind

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Hiroki Sayama @hirokisayama.bsky.social · 4d

From the Physical ALife session
#ALIFE2025

Hiroki Sayama @hirokisayama.bsky.social · 4d

Final day of #ALIFE2025
I will be busy chairing the Physical ALife session

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Hiroki Sayama @hirokisayama.bsky.social · 5d

Now the #ALIFE2025 keynote panel on the field's unsolved problems

Hiroki Sayama @hirokisayama.bsky.social · 5d

Nathan Lloyd argues the need for pluralistic ways to define and use "AI"
#ALIFE2025

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Hiroki Sayama @hirokisayama.bsky.social · 5d

Another talk by Jeremy Pitt
What do people feel when they and ALife are in conflict in a cooperation game?
#ALIFE2025

Hiroki Sayama @hirokisayama.bsky.social · 5d

Now in #ALIFE2025 ALife in Org satellite
Jeremy Pitt argues the use of human-AI co-production to make institutions more open-ended and more adaptive

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Hiroki Sayama @hirokisayama.bsky.social · 5d

Now #ALIFE2025 keynote panel on open-endedness and plurality, by Ken Stanley, David Ha, Audrey Tang and Mizuki Oka

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Complexity Cat 🐱 @amahury.bsky.social · 5d

Our keynote speaker today is Blaise Agüera y Arcas, who presented his results on in-silico abiogenesis using a primitive programming language, showing the emergence of self-replicator programs follow a well-defined phase transition.

#ALIFE2025

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Hiroki Sayama @hirokisayama.bsky.social · 5d

#ALIFE2025 Day 4 keynote Blaise Agüera y Arcas shows a live demo of his famous Brainfuck experiment (which looks very much like the Matrix)

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Hiroki Sayama @hirokisayama.bsky.social · 5d

Now, the next talk immediately following ASAL already extends it to ASAL++ by dynamically generating next prompts using past simulation history!
#ALIFE2025

Hiroki Sayama @hirokisayama.bsky.social · 5d

And now Akarsh Kumar presents the ASAL work!!
#ALIFE2025

Hiroki Sayama @hirokisayama.bsky.social · 5d

Dominik Woiwode designs and builds rotation-invariant hardware modules for NCA
(Each module costs just 10 euros!)
#ALIFE2025

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Hiroki Sayama @hirokisayama.bsky.social · 5d

#ALIFE2025 Day 4
Cellular Automata 2 session
James Stovold shows including an pattern identity state makes NCA's behavior more robust and consistent when two nearby patterns overlap

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Hiroki Sayama @hirokisayama.bsky.social · 5d

Grant rejected