New blog!

Thanks to T. Ryan Gregory, I have just discovered Todd Oakley's new blog, Evolutionary Novelties. It's only a few months old and only has a few entries, but go on, encourage him to write more.

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Play cognitive engineer: if you were designing an intelligent system, you'd probably use the same system to detect novelty as that used to detect familiarity.
To efficiently direct learning, it may be useful for the brain to attend to those items which are maximally novel - this novelty may obscure some predictive or rewarding value that has not yet been learned or exploited.
We've got an interesting seminar coming to Morris next Thursday.

I have enjoyed Todd's blog, and he has apparently found a tidbit he liked on mine. From March 6th:

STUDENT
> Why is this? Also, where can I find your paper on this topic online?
OAKLEY
Here is a good blog about our eye research:
http://www.tuibguy.com/?p=209

Here is the paper:
http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0001054

and a news story that was in many newspapers:
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/staff/robert_boyd/story/21106.html

That really is one great blog. Read for instance
this article on Stephen J. Gould: Pluralism by monism. Great reading, for me at least a totally different way to look at Gould.

And I don't have a blog of my own to sell. Too busy reading those of others.