User:MattOates

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1 Stuff About Me
2 Pages I've Started
- 2.1 Wikipedia
- 2.2 Wikipedia (Simple)
3 Cool Users
4 Other Links
5 Quirks Of History

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I'm a Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence student at the University of Wales Aberystwyth. Just got back from an industrial year in Plymouth with the Remote Sensing Group at the Plymouth Marine Laboratories. I've now returned to mother Wales for my fourth and final year at university. I'm writing my undergrad dissertation on modifying a standard Genetic Algorithm to include the idea of symbiogenesis, as a genetic operator to accelerate the adoption of useful behaviors in a population of computer game playing agents. Check out http://users.aber.ac.uk/meo3/work.html for more info ;)

I'm interested in all things quirky and all things SCIENCE! and more so for a combination of the two.

I recently started up the #alife IRC channel on freenode if anyone is interested in coming along and talking about artificial life! irc://irc.freenode.net#alife

Stupid page of User Boxes

[edit] Pages I've Started

I've been absorbing Wikipedia for a long time now, but I figured it's about time I gave something back. The following are my meagre attempts at paying for all the info and entertainment I've gained from reading the wiki!

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Coccolithovirus

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"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." ~Albert Einstein

Nuclear_fusion

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[edit] Other Links

http://www.mattoates.co.uk

[edit] Quirks Of History

"This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication." Western Union internal memo, 1876.

"Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible." Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895.

"Everything that can be invented has been invented." Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899.

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." Thomas J. Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943.

"Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18 000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers of the future may have only 1 000 vacuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1½ tons." Popular Mechanics, March 1949.

"I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won't last out the year." The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, 1957.