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Emerging Researchers in Artificial Life @eralife.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

1/📢 Announcing our next ERA Journal Club session 📍Sept 26, 17:00 BST on Discord: discord.gg/m3qvuXgkZ7 What happens when you replace Langton's rule with a neural net? 🐜🧠 NAnts explores self-healing spatial patterns through collective behavior! 🔗 www.izhv.eu/nants/

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Iliya Zhechev @ilzhechev.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Another lovely ALIFE experience 🍁🍁🍁 where me and @pw4ltz.bsky.social got to present the izhv.eu/ncpu project we’ve been working on! #ALIFE2026 #ERA #NCPU

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Iliya Zhechev @ilzhechev.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

🦠 What happens when you reinterpret the interaction rules of Particle Life on a grid? Introducing Field Life - a new type of cellular automaton where gliders emerge from a grid of interacting concentrations. Check out the live version: www.izhv.eu/field-life/

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Iliya Zhechev @ilzhechev.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

🐜 🍁 🐜 🍁 🐜 🍁 🐜 🍁 🐜 Introducint Neural Ants : NAnts NAnts are to Langton's ant what NCAs are to cellular automata: the rule is learned rather than written by hand. Check out the project page: ichko.github.io/nants #ALIFE2026 #ERA #ERAWorkshop #Hackathon

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Iliya Zhechev @ilzhechev.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

🍁 Join the Ant 🐜 inspired ERA Workshop Hackathon on Tuesday, 16:00 Check out the website for some inspiration: 🔗 emerging-researchers-alife.github.io/alife26-era-... #ERAWorskhop #Hackathon #ALIFE26

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Iliya Zhechev @ilzhechev.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Join the ERA Workshop this Tuesday at 10:00 and at 15:00 @ ALife26 🇨🇦 We have a linup of lightning talks and an Emerg-ANT Hackathon! 🔗 emerging-researchers-alife.github.io/alife26-era-...

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Iliya Zhechev @ilzhechev.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

You've heard of Langton's ant. Check out its trainable version. Since it borrows from the architecture of NCAs should we call it Mordvintsev's ant? #ALIFE2026 #ERAWorkshop

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Iliya Zhechev @ilzhechev.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

For the past few months me and @pw4ltz.bsky.social have been working on a fun, visual and whimsical project: self-organized boolean computation or trying to learn boolean gates 🧮 with an NCA 🦎(Neural Cellular Automata). Check out the WIP project at: ncpu.pages.dev #NCA #ALife2026

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Iliya Zhechev @ilzhechev.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Raw conversation history or extracted memories? We tested both—and a hybrid. 🧠

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hardmaru @hardmaru.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Reproducing all of Jürgen Schmidhuber’s papers (1990-2025) using an AI coding assistant. Cool project by Yaroslav! It even reproduced the “World Models” paper by me and Schmidhuber (2018) using a toy environment, with a full VAE + RNN world model implementation. Project: github.com/cybertronai/...

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Iliya Zhechev @ilzhechev.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

At @aliceworkshop.org I convinced some brilliant people to to work on my idea 💪 Artificial Life in Cellular Encoding: optimizing NCAs to preserve information in noisy environments 🎯 Code: github.com/ichko/vitasc...

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Iliya Zhechev @ilzhechev.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Had such a great time at this weeks @aliceworkshop.org in Copenhagen. Looking forward to next year's edition!

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Alyssa M Adams @alyssa-m-adams.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

I can’t wait! I love discussion and project based workshops ✨

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Harald M. Ludwig @haraldludwig.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

First day of the @alife2025.bsky.social conference was fun! Our @eralife.bsky.social workshop was a success. Thanks to @risi.bsky.social, @bhartl.bsky.social, and @zzznah.bsky.social for their talks! After we checked out the local cuisine with @ilzhechev.bsky.social. #ALIFE25 #ERA

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Harald M. Ludwig @haraldludwig.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

If you are attending @alife2025.bsky.social next week you shouldn’t miss our workshop on Monday! Besides the opportunity to share an exciting idea or a (research) project you’ve been working on, we’ll have talks by @risi.bsky.social and @bhartl.bsky.social giving some career insights. 😮 #ALIFE2025

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Iliya Zhechev @ilzhechev.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

🪧 Last week we presented a poster at #SSCI2025: "Embodied Autoencoding Through Neural Cellular Automata". We show that NCAs can learn to compress, transport, and reconstruct complex patterns through extreme spatial bottlenecks using only local interactions.

Picture of the Embodied Autoencoder Poster

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