Alex Lalejini

Assistant professor @ Grand Valley State University School of Computing. he/him/his

[MMitchell @mmitchell_ai]

In other news, ChatGPT is promoting the work of an outspoken sexist and racist as being "the most important paper" in AI literature.
ChatGPT says it's been cited over 25,000 times.
It's been cited less than 3500 times.

[Luis Zaman @LuisZaman]

Stay tuned for a full tweet thread, hopefully tomorrow!

But for now, a part of Fig. 1 showing that evolution is able to move populations to regions of the genotype-phenotype map that mirrors fluctuating environments!

And it does it without a detectable decrease in robustness.

[Ryan Bahlous-Boldi @RyanBoldi]

🚨 New Preprint Alert 🚨

Informed Down-Sampled Lexicase Selection: Identifying productive training cases for efficient problem solving.

Authors: @RyanBoldi*, Martin Briesch*, Dominik Sobania, @amlalejini , Thomas Helmuth, Franz Rothlauf, @CharlesOfria & @leespector

[Luis Zaman @LuisZaman]

I'm teaching a new class called Measles, Memes, and Misinformation for @UMICHCS and @UMichEEB with no pre-reqs! You'll learn some key concepts in disease dynamics, networks, and bullshit (@callin_bull).

Syllabus to come. Respond with your favorite example!!

Plz RT!

[Dr. Anya E Vostinar @AnyaEVostinar]

Hey alife folks, I have some undergraduate students interested in doing alife research with folks outside of my college during December (we have funding they can apply for for that time). Let me know if you are possibly interested!

[Luis Zaman @LuisZaman]

We have a fun new paper officially out today, led by @amlalejini, @emilyldolson, and @AnyaEVostinar!

If you know me, or seen me talk, you know I started off doing this evolution thing as a computer scientist... 1/n

https://t.co/6gmAfEHJMT

[Alex Lalejini @amlalejini]

@ATinyGreenCell @AnyaEVostinar @wc_ratcliff @RELenski ❤️ thanks! I’m always happy to chat about it!

[Alex Lalejini @amlalejini]

@LuisZaman @AFredston I love love love using r markdown + bookdown + github pages to turn all of my supplemental material into an ebook e.g., https://t.co/1Neng3KNIb

Wrote a guide here: https://t.co/1DHBXib7oU

[Alex Lalejini @amlalejini]

@mmore500 @itatiVCS @GradEmpUnion @michiganstateu @MSU_Egr_News Yup. In 2017, my spouse and I found out that we went over a month with no insurance after trying to make an appointment. We were super lucky that the comp sci grad secretary was incredible and knew who to call.

[Alex Lalejini @amlalejini]

/end

[Alex Lalejini @amlalejini]

It has been an absolute blast to work on this with @FergusonAJ17, @NkrumahGrant, and @CharlesOfria! I'll give some (rambling) details below👇

[Nkrumah Grant @NkrumahGrant]

How does adaptive phenotypic plasticity affect evolutionary outcomes in cyclically changing environments? Check out our preprint where we used digital evolution experiments to examine this question. Work was lead by new doctoral grad, @amlalejini, & @FergusonAJ17. @CharlesOfria

[Alex Lalejini @amlalejini]

➡️ Finally, @LuisZaman's keynote at @2020ALIFE seeded ideas for our initial exploratory experiments: https://t.co/zwaHtbe7Hp