User:MattOates

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I just graduated with a first class honours in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence from the University of Wales Aberystwyth. I'm now working for my old university in the Institute of Geography and Earth Science doing all sorts of computer fun, go here to find out more. Previously I worked for a year in Plymouth with the Remote Sensing Group, at the Plymouth Marine Laboratories, processing satellite data.

I wrote my undergrad dissertation on modifying a standard Genetic Algorithm to include the idea of symbiogenesis as a genetic operator; accelerating adoption of useful behaviors in a population of game playing agents. Check out http://www.mattoates.co.uk/work_uni.php 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

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This user is a WikiSloth.

[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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[edit] Wikipedia (Simple)

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

I've decided to give up on editing simple wikipedia, as a lot of people only care about simplicity of language, and not about making accessible content for young people. After other users edits made many of my articles orphaned I've given up caring about the simple community :'[

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[edit] Quirks Of History

  • "This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication." Western Union internal memo, 1876.
  • "Everything that can be invented has been invented." Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899.
  • "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.
  • "But what... is it good for ?" An engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, commenting on the microchip in 1968.