7:00 – ASRC GOES

• Listening to Rachel Maddow on City Arts and Lectures. She’s talking about the power of oil and gas, and how they are essentially anti-democratic. I think that may be true for most extracting industries. They are incentivised to take advantage of the populations that are the gatekeepers to the resource. Which is why you get corruption – it’s cost effective. This also makes me wonder about advertising, which regards consumers as the source to extract money/votes/etc from.
• Dissertation:
  • Something to add to the discussion section. Primordial jumps are not just on the parts of an individual on a fitness landscape. Sometimes the landscape can change, as with a natural disaster. The survivors are presented with an entirely new fitness landscape,often devoid of competition, that they can now climb.
  • This implies that sustained stylistic change creates sophisticated ecosystems, while primordial change disrupts that, and sets the stage for the creation of new ecosystems.
  • Had a really scary moment. Everything with \includegraphics wouldn’t compile. It seems to be a problem with MikTex, as described here. The fix is to place this code after \documentclass:

    \makeatletter
    \def\set@curr@file#1{%
    	\begingroup
    	\escapechar\m@ne
    	\xdef\@curr@file{\expandafter\string\csname #1\endcsname}%
    	\endgroup
    }
    \def\quote@name#1{"\quote@@name#1\@gobble""}
    \def\quote@@name#1"{#1\quote@@name}
    \def\unquote@name#1{\quote@@name#1\@gobble"}
    \makeatother

  • Finished the intro simulation description and results. Next is robot stampedes, then adversarial herding
• Evolver
  • Check on status
  • Write abstract for GSAW if things worked out
• GOES-R AI/ML Meeting
  • Lots of AIMS deployment discussion. Config files, version control, etc.
• AIMS / A2P Meeting
  • Walked through report
  • Showed Vadim’s physics
  • Showed video of the Deep Mind robot Rubik’s cube to drive homethe need for simulation
  • Send an estimate for travel expenses for 2020
  • Put together a physics roadmap with Vadim and Bruce