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This week two more NIGEL 2006 talks. Enjoy this third release, Llorà vs. Casillas.
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Manny’s Music, a classic among the guitar stores founded in 1935, has been definitely closed. I just visited this place twice, but the first time I already felt a unique vibe coming from the stories that it enclosed. This store, which walls were covered by pictures of legendary stars and real gems of guitars, had […]
Manny's Music, New York (USA) |
Manny's Music, New York (USA) |
Manny’s Music, a classic among the guitar stores founded in 1935, has been definitely closed. I just visited this place twice, but the first time I already felt a unique vibe coming from the stories that it enclosed. This store, which walls were covered by pictures of legendary stars and real gems of guitars, had lived through fashion without losing its identity, which was as exceptional as admirable.
Its last day was really sad. Some people came to recall old and happy memories and see off this small museum. Many others were bargain hunters looking for a great discount. There were also visitors that became part of this “everything must go” by chance since this institution was one of the main attractions around Times Square. However, they did not expect to witness the end of the tale.
Although nothing lasts forever, I do not like losing this kind of places because of money troubles and hope that, at the same time and in another place, a future legend with more luck is ready to take Manny’s Music baton.
Manny's Music, New York (USA) |
Manny's Music, New York (USA) |
May said goodbye with two magic moments. On Saturday 30 and Sunday 31, the so-called Manhattanhenge, an astronomical event in which the Sun is perfectly aligned with the Manhattan’s grid, took place. The connoisseurs were ready in the strategic points, along the 14th, 23rd, 34th, 42nd, and 57th streets, with their cameras, to hunt the […]
May said goodbye with two magic moments. On Saturday 30 and Sunday 31, the so-called Manhattanhenge, an astronomical event in which the Sun is perfectly aligned with the Manhattan’s grid, took place. The connoisseurs were ready in the strategic points, along the 14th, 23rd, 34th, 42nd, and 57th streets, with their cameras, to hunt the perfect framing, the alignment between the Sun and the streets and buildings of the City. Those who didn’t know anything about the event could even feel that something unusual was happening since the rays of sunlight that filtered through the streets flooded them with an intense bright orange light. For all of us, it was the gift of the day. Simply impressive.
Here you have some shots of these gorgeous sunsets. Just for your information, there are two more opportunities on July 11 and July 12.
34th Street Manhattan, New York (USA) {Raw picture} |
34th Street Manhattan, New York (USA) {Treatment suggested by FX} |
34th Street Manhattan, New York (USA) {Raw picture} |
34th Street Manhattan, New York (USA) {Raw picture} |
42nd Street Manhattan, New York (USA) {Raw picture} |
We have just completed the “renewal” process for the Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines editorial board, the most exciting aspect of which is that we now have a new Associate Editor, Pauline C. Haddow (of The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway) and four new regular members of the editorial board: Marc Ebner (of Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany), Jason H. Moore (of Dartmouth Medical School, USA), Sara Silva (of Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal), and Tina Yu (of Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada). Thanks to all of the continuing associate editors for helping with this process, and welcome to the new editors! I think that the journal will be even stronger with these additions.
We have just completed the “renewal” process for the Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines editorial board, the most exciting aspect of which is that we now have a new Associate Editor, Pauline C. Haddow (of The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway) and four new regular members of the editorial board: Marc Ebner (of Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany), Jason H. Moore (of Dartmouth Medical School, USA), Sara Silva (of Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal), and Tina Yu (of Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada). Thanks to all of the continuing associate editors for helping with this process, and welcome to the new editors! I think that the journal will be even stronger with these additions.
by Sergio Morales-Ortigosa, Albert Orriols-Puig, and Ester Bernadó-Mansilla. Special issue of Data Mining and Hybrid Intelligent Systems in the International Journal of Hybrid and Intelligent Systems, [Publisher site] [Preprint – pdf]
XCS is a learning classifier system that uses genetic algorithms to evolve a population of classifiers online. When applied to classification problems described by continuous […]
by Sergio Morales-Ortigosa, Albert Orriols-Puig, and Ester Bernadó-Mansilla. Special issue of Data Mining and Hybrid Intelligent Systems in the International Journal of Hybrid and Intelligent Systems, [Publisher site] [Preprint – pdf]
XCS is a learning classifier system that uses genetic algorithms to evolve a population of classifiers online. When applied to classification problems described by continuous attributes, XCS has demonstrated to be able to evolve classification models—represented as a set of independent interval-based rules—that are, at least, as accurate as those created by some of the most competitive machine learning techniques such as C4.5. Despite these successful results, analyses of how the different genetic operators affect the rule evolution for the interval-based rule representation are lacking. This paper focuses on this issue and conducts a systematic experimental analysis of the effect of the different genetic operators. The observations and conclusions drawn from the analysis are used as a tool for designing new operators that enable the system to extract models that are more accurate than those obtained by the original XCS scheme. More specifically, the system is provided with a new discovery component based on evolution strategies, and a new crossover operator is designed for both the original discovery component and the new one based on evolution strategies. In all these cases, the behavior of the new operators are carefully analyzed and compared with the ones provided by original XCS. The overall analysis enables us to supply important insights into the behavior of different operators and to improve the learning of interval-based rules in real-world domains on average.
We received 23 submissions to the Special Issue on Parallel and Distributed Evolutionary Algorithms. This is a very healthy number, indicating strong interest in the area and good prospects for an exciting special issue. Congratulations to guest editors Marco Tomassini and Leonardo Vanneschi, thanks to all of the submitters, and thanks in advance to all of the reviewers!
We received 23 submissions to the Special Issue on Parallel and Distributed Evolutionary Algorithms. This is a very healthy number, indicating strong interest in the area and good prospects for an exciting special issue. Congratulations to guest editors Marco Tomassini and Leonardo Vanneschi, thanks to all of the submitters, and thanks in advance to all of the reviewers!
New videos from the CEC-2009 simulated car racing competition are available for each one of the competitors:
COBOSTAR (Winner of the CEC-2009 competition)
Onieva and Pelta (2nd place)
Cardamone (3rd place, winner of the CIG-2008 competition)
Mr. Racer (4th place)
Perez and Saez (5th place)
Red Java (6th place)
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New videos from the CEC-2009 simulated car racing competition are available for each one of the competitors:
New videos from the CEC-2009 simulated car racing competition are available for each one of the competitors:
COBOSTAR (Winner of the CEC-2009 competition)
Onieva and Pelta (2nd place)
Cardamone (3rd place, winner of the CIG-2008 competition)
Mr. Racer (4th place)
Perez and Saez (5th place)
Red Java (6th place)
New videos from the CEC-2009 simulated car racing competition are available for each one of the competitors:
A few days ago, Prof. Cirac was interviewed in a Catalan TV channel about his work on quantum theory of information. Prof. Cirac explained the method based on quantum cryptography that he and his team have been developing during the last few years, which makes sure that the information can be neither intercepted nor decrypted. […]
A few days ago, Prof. Cirac was interviewed in a Catalan TV channel about his work on quantum theory of information. Prof. Cirac explained the method based on quantum cryptography that he and his team have been developing during the last few years, which makes sure that the information can be neither intercepted nor decrypted. Actually the information is not physically transmitted, but just appears at the receiver side.
In addition to the method itself, I was surprised by the clarity with which Prof. Cirac introduced quantum physics and reviewed some of its paradoxes. In what follows, you can find a link to the video. Unfortunately, the interview is only in Catalan (interviewer) and Spanish (Prof. Cirac).
The Sullivan St Bakery, located in the 47th Street between the 10th and 11th Avenues, bakes every morning the famous bombolinis. What is that? It is a spongy full doughnut with vanilla cream or raspberry jam filling and sugar on the top of its outer crust. Mmm… Delicious! This breakfast is one of the petits […]
Two delicious bombolinis from the Sullivan St Bakery
The Sullivan St Bakery, located in the 47th Street between the 10th and 11th Avenues, bakes every morning the famous bombolinis. What is that? It is a spongy full doughnut with vanilla cream or raspberry jam filling and sugar on the top of its outer crust. Mmm… Delicious! This breakfast is one of the petits plaisirs of the life.