“MarI/O” is a program developed by Seth Bling that applies machine learning to the iconic video game Super Mario World.

In this informative video, Bling discusses neural evolution and explains how a machine learning Mario teaches us about evolution.

For those interested, you can find the source code here and read an interesting paper by MIT on Evolving Neural Networks through Augmenting Topologies, here.

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Lives of the Artists: Portraits of Ten Artists Whose Work and Lifestyles Embody the Future of Contemporary Art

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“Brilliantly illuminating . . . This latter-day Vasari puts his dry wit and keen eye to work in fashioning enduring portraits of ten contemporary-art stars, tracing the fruits of creative genius back to their strange roots.”–VogueFor more than four decades Calvin Tomkins’s incisive profiles in The New Yorker have given readers the most satisfying reports on contemporary art and artists available in any language. In Lives of the Artists ten major artists are captured in Tomkins’s cool and ironic

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