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Tim Taylor

@drtimt.bsky.social

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Scientist, historian, author & coder of Artificial Life & Open-Ended Evolution. Board Member of International Society for Artificial Life / Independent Researcher. Live in Edinburgh, Scotland 🌈 timt.co Book: timt.co/selfrepbook

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Tim Taylor @drtimt.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I'm very excited to have got my hands on this, a surprisingly hard-to-find copy of the English translation of Émile Souvestre's 1846 dystopian sci-fi novel "Le Monde tel qu'il sera", complete with the beautiful original illustrations.

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Tim Taylor @drtimt.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

It's taken way longer than I had originally anticipated (about 18 months), but I'm super excited to say that the project to translate Nils Aall Barricelli's groundbreaking 1954 paper on computational evolution and artificial life - "Esempi Numerici di Processi di Evoluzione" - is now complete! [1/2]

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Tim Taylor @drtimt.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Good grief

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Tim Taylor @drtimt.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

I'm looking forward to reading this novel, written by microbiologist Richard Goodman under the pen name Bonham Richards. Goodman was a friend of Artificial Life pioneer Nils Aall Barricelli, and George Dyson tells me that the character Angelo Kraakmo in the book is based upon Barricelli!

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Tim Taylor @drtimt.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

I've finally got a copy of Nils Barricelli's 1st paper on Artificial Life, in Italian (1954). Would be great to get it translated into English. My preference would be to have this done by a skilled human translator rather than AI. Any bilingual Italian-English folk out there who might be interested?

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Tim Taylor @drtimt.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

I'm enjoying reading Mitchell Waldrop's venerable account of the origin and early years of @sfiscience.bsky.social, published in 1992. Wonderful to learn that John Holland developed his first classifier system in machine code (not even assembly language) on his Commodore computer at home 👏

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Tim Taylor @drtimt.bsky.social · 10/10/2024

I'm pleased to announce a new second edition of the author-formatted version of our book Rise of the Self-Replicators, which includes my 2024 afterword (originally published in the Artificial Life journal) as an extra chapter. More details & free download: www.tim-taylor.com/news/posts/2...

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