2024: News Summary

12/31/2024

T2 Challenge Completed: T2 Matrix Meets World (#3151)
T2 2024 Finale (#3156)
- Signaling in Beevee's Brain: Dendritic trees for sparse connectivity
- Beevee's Project 2025: Some kind of world model
23 commits to ulam-5.x develop repository for bug fixes, etc.

Onward Essays! Splash2024 Conference presentation by Lu Wilson/TodePond - Oct 28th (see video below)
New LCToE Q&A: Oct 16th, Oct 29th
SFI Working Group meeting on Emergent Engineering - Informal Talk - Nov 22nd (see video below)
LCF Website:
- New Publications page
- NEWS page goes annual
One-on-one Zooms with interesting and interested people

The Computing Up podcast reached its 75th episode
T2 Tile Project: +185 new, 1305 subscribers
- On the first Tuesday of each month, at noon Mountain Time
- Posted 11 T2sday Updates #3146-#3156 to The T2 Tile Project YouTube channel
T2 Demos channel: +6 new, 93 subscribers
- T2Demos #214 added: "Dendritic Tree" demo in MFMS (24:33 long; recorded live Oct 27th)
DaveAckley channel: +686 new, 5916 subscribers
- Informal Talk: Santa Fe Institute Working Group meeting on Emergent Engineering Bottom up engineering for robust-first computing (21:50 long; recorded live Nov 22nd)
Onward Essays! Splash2024 Conference presentation by Lu Wilson/TodePond: Dialogs on natural code (0:48:16 long; recorded live Oct 28th)

1985 Research paper cited in 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics :
- I Did Not Win A Nobel Prize (#3156)
- '24 Nobel Prize in Physics cited graduate work by UNM professor emeritus by Carly Bowling, UNM Newsroom, Oct 15, 2024 (old photos)
- "A Learning Algorithm for Boltzmann Machines" (pdf)
Onward Essays! Splash2024 Conference paper: "Dialogues on Natural Code" links
LCF publication: "Companionate Caring: An Ethical Philosophy of Life" by Sheldon C. Ackley
- Sales: +1
- Excerpt: Ethics as Networking (#3138)
Collected Works book : in progress