Generating a Garden with Python
20 December 2020
Second part of my Rewriting Systems Sequence. A Python tutorial on experimenting with Lindenmayer systems to generate biological structures of various plants.
20 December 2020
Second part of my Rewriting Systems Sequence. A Python tutorial on experimenting with Lindenmayer systems to generate biological structures of various plants.
15 December 2020
Part 0 of my Rewriting Systems Sequence. An introduction to abstract rewriting systems, lindenmayer systems, and formal grammars, exploring the philosophical motivation, mathematical theory, practical applications, and major assumptions.
05 December 2020
Long-form notes recording attempts to model biological organisms using Shannon's concept of Entropy & Information. This is an effort to disentangle thoughts and see where metaphors + jargon fit, stretch, and break during the mapping.
29 November 2020
My review of Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz and Aristid Lindenmayer's book exploring the computational modeling of plant structures using parallel rewriting systems.
20 July 2020
A collection of my thoughts, resources, and related ideas regarding the Free Energy Principle. Discusses Helmholtz machines, causal flow, dynamical systems, markov blankets, thermodynamics, entropy, variational methods, teleology, philosophy of science, & more.
18 April 2020
Discussing the nature of Life vs. Non-Life, Abiogenesis, and the origin of a Proto-Self using concepts such as dissipative systems, toroidal geometries, and variational free energy.