30 November 2012

Details
Scribe: Emma Present: Lee, Micah, Tom, Zeke, Kwaku, Emma Reading for next week: None

Agenda
Tom wants to discuss GSXover random code generation and how we can fix it. It might be a good idea to re-skim the emails related to this if you wish to be involved in the discussion.

Lee's updates

 * Funding - current grants, upcoming projects, different directions
 * New focus back on the calculator problem, modality, modularity, concepts related to our recent work using GSX, etc.
 * number pressing to number, boolean output
 * run program once to establish tag space
 * map of button to tag (hard-coded) -> each button has a particular tag value
 * tagging, boolean, float, exec stacks
 * how wrong is it -> need a gradient, rather than 0-1 loss
 * due to tag spaces, new genetic operators like "concatenation" might be useful. new one called "amalgamation'
 * TODO: investigate tradeoffs between redundancy and modularity (Kwaku's done much recent work on this)
 * refactoring

Kwaku's update


Tom's update
- added scope -> lee suggesting a scope macro/interface -> how to get adfs without explicitly having adfs -> connection with mutation? - changed scope (specific function set for random code in GSX)
 * kata bowling runs - searching for consistency in what's causing some runs to do well and what's causing some to perform poorly
 * gsxover - should we continue working on this? if yes, how can we make it work?
 * tom's recent work has raised the probability of getting something successful

Zeke's update

 * validation, things related to the Domingos paper Lee forwarded.
 * held up by chemdoodle release delay

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