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Ape Reality

Noble Ape's creator, Tom Barbalet, discusses aspects of the development, philosophy and the artificial life community

107. April 2008 Mailout

Good news on another book project, Tom welcomes the large group of new folks who discovered Ape Reality through iTunes and more...

0 Comments Published: Apr. 30, 2008 Listen

106. March 2008 Mailout

Tom talks about the XML phenotype output from the Simulation, the EvoGrid and the potential for another book chapter.

0 Comments Published: Mar. 31, 2008 Listen

105. Male Pregnancy, Identical Twins and XML

Some interesting bugs have come through the phenotype XML output implementation of the Noble Ape Simulation. Tom discusses some of these together with a random smattering of editorial banter.

0 Comments Published: Mar. 12, 2008 Listen

104. February 2008 Mailout

Similar to the last Mailout, Tom discusses Biota Live and the Dick Gordon book project.

0 Comments Published: Feb. 23, 2008 Listen

103. January 2008 Mailout

Following the initial success of Biota Live, Tom discusses the back-to-back episodes coming up this weekend, the release of Noble Ape 0.687, the XML changes for the file i/o in the Simulation and the book with Dick Gordon and Bruce Damer.

0 Comments Published: Jan. 31, 2008 Listen

102. Live Biota and a Film Review

Following the launch of Biota LIVE, Tom discusses how good this method was in contrast to his normal podcasting. Tom also reviews the nerd classic movie, Revolution OS, in the context of contemporary open source.

0 Comments Published: Jan. 13, 2008 Listen

101. December 2007 Mailout

Tom talks about how his simple recording setup is getting traction on YouTube, taking the message of artificial life to a generalist audience and the progressive changes of the Noble Ape Simulation. Not to mention the new Biota LIVE podcast coming…

0 Comments Published: Dec. 30, 2007 Listen

100. Medley of 2007 Compositions

Tom lets his fingers do the talking with a medley of 2007 compositions.

0 Comments Published: Dec. 23, 2007 Listen

99. Generalist Chats, Books and Libraries

Tom returns to talk about appearing on ShrinkRapRadio LIVE, the SciPhi Show, a new book project with Bruce Damer and Dick Gordon, and the ongoing Noble Ape Simulation as a library project.

0 Comments Published: Dec. 22, 2007 Listen

98. November 2007 Mailout

Tom gives thanks to folk covering the Google insanity, some discussion of the second book project and code development for the iPhone interface.

0 Comments Published: Nov. 23, 2007 Listen

97. San Diego State Rocks, Google Doesn't

Tom talks about Google blocking sections of the Noble Ape site, changes in the library format with regards to ApeScript, San Diego State using Noble Ape in their EDTEC classes and making contact.

0 Comments Published: Nov. 14, 2007 Listen

Google blocks nobleape.com (http://www.nobleape.com/googleblock.html)

Tom Barbalet makes a brief announcement about Google blocking sections of nobleape.com (http://www.nobleape.com/googleblock.html).

0 Comments Published: Nov. 13, 2007 Listen

96. Library of Progress

Tom talks about the Facebook groups associated with Noble Ape, the Noble Ape libraries development in the context of Mac OS 10.5 and other updates.

0 Comments Published: Nov. 10, 2007 Listen

95. October 2007 Mailout

An under-the-weather Tom describes the changes for Mac OS 10.5, the new book project and the continued atomization of the Noble Ape Simulation.

0 Comments Published: Nov. 1, 2007 Listen

94. Atomic Books

With the start of the atomic development, Tom discusses what happens to the book project.

0 Comments Published: Oct. 15, 2007 Listen
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