@okw Thank you so much Olaf! In the same vein, you made it so much easier for me knowing that ISAL would be in great hands after I stepped down.
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Charles Ofria
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Charles Ofria
@CharlesOfria
Professor: Computer Science@MSU; Director: BEACON Center for the Study of Evolution in Action; President: International Society for Artificial Life
Katılım Nisan 2013
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My predecessor made my job as ISAL president way easier and more pleasant, thank you @CharlesOfria and congratulations for everything you do for the community! 👏
ALIFE Conference 2026@ALifeConf
For the Exceptional Service Award, Charles Ofra! #ALife2024
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Being a professor's assistant DOES seem like it would be so much easier in retrospect...
Jeff Clune@jeffclune
True story. When I first wanted to enter science I Googled the type of AI I was interested in. I kept finding mentions of @CharlesOfria, but he was an "Assistant Professor." For 1-2 frustrating days I thought "I don't want the professor's assistant! Who is the real professor?!?"
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@DrMikeWiser Oh, and Schmigadoon!! If you like musicals, it makes fun of all of them (in a loving way). Very funny.
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@DrMikeWiser I also enjoyed both See and Mythic Quest. I’ve heard good things about both Severance and Foundation (which is apparently very different from the book), but haven’t see either yet.
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It turns out that the advent of Strange Planet was what was needed to get me to get a subscription to Apple TV.
So after I finish bingeing Prehistoric Planet, what else do I need to watch there?
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Pain is not a flavor.
Vanilla tastes better than chocolate.
Bitter doesn't mean good; it means poison.
Didiiiiiiii@Didiiiiiiiiii_
we’re cancelling each other over FOOD takes today, post your cancellable FOOD take
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@TedPavlic For regular collaborators, though it’s back and forth editing the whole thing, which always seems so much slower than it should.
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@TedPavlic For student first authors, I have them write the first draft and then interactively edit with them, explaining my logic for changes as we go. Often I will leave writing sessions with a task list for them involving bigger changes. By the ~third paper this all goes pretty smoothly.
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Ideally, when collab writing a manuscript, do you prefer:
a) Lead author attempts to write everything first and co-authors heavily edit after to get details right
b) Each co-author writes a section(s) first and lead author heavily edits whole document to pull things together
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@seanmcarroll Use it as an instructional tool. Specifically, provide a prompt for them to use for ChatGPT. They must critique the response it gives, pointing out errors, lost nuance, missing details, or other issues they may find. You can test out some prompts to see what it struggles with.
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This will be my first semester teaching where students have ready access to AI to help write papers. I don't want to forbid that; it's unrealistic and arguably counterproductive. Any suggestions about the best way to deal with it?
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Charles Ofria retweetledi
Biomolecules’ structures have an intuitive relationship to their specific Physical Thing They Do… like the photopsin light receptors likely streaming this tweet to your brain…
((thread on investigation of evolutionary properties of in silico tag matching mechanisms))
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@TanushJagdish I think this is key. The initial meeting between a student and a prospective committee member should be to decide if it makes sense for them to be on your committee, not just to convince them to do it. If you already know each other, then a meeting might not be needed.
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In the ideal case, a committee should be a way for students to find additional mentorship and support. Meeting and evaluating a member for fit is *crucial*. This is YOUR PhD. Absolutely ask for their time. If they can't give you 15-20 minutes, move on and find better mentors.
Arjun Raj@arjunrajlab
Not sure who is giving this guidance, but PhD students: we don't need to meet to discuss whether or not I should be on your thesis committee. Just send a description of what you do and why I might be helpful. I can decide based on that.
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@DrMikeWiser I would say Cleric to Draxis (dandwiki.com/wiki/Draxis_(3…), but he's Lawful Neutral and I see you heading in a more Lawful Good direction...
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I've seen this meme going around non-science Twitter, and now I am curious:
What D&D class would you figure I am?
Not what I would play; what I am.
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@lefticus I often use Emscripten, and while it’s been a while since I tested it, as of a few years ago there was a big difference in performance.
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Are exceptions banned in your C++ code?
If yes, explain why and then also explain if you ever actually measured the difference between exceptions and the alternatives.
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@LuisZaman I mean, it does also work really well for guiding them on how to improve their own writing...
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@CharlesOfria It sounds like both our students have figured us out: use our 1-on-1 meeting times to edit in real time!
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Is anyone else painfully slow at editing manuscripts? What's the deal with my collaborators that are able to turn a paper around in an afternoon?
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@TedPavlic Great. I'm generally against remakes, but now I really want this movie.
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@DrMikeWiser Just finished season 3 (about 20 minutes ago) and find myself satisfied with the series as a whole, though definitely some flaws. The reemphasis of the borg queen being one of them.
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I still hate the entire concept of a Borg Queen. It undermines everything about the Borg.
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Jose was co-advised by @amlalejini and myself, and his dissertation title is "Beyond Benchmark Suites: Engineering Diagnostics Tools to Characterize Selection Schemes". We're really going to miss having him around, but excited to see what he does next.
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Charles Ofria retweetledi
This preprint is the fruit of several years of hard work by @peterlconlin & Heather Goldsby in collaboration with @CharlesOfria (who, w/ Heather, built the platform), @wc_ratcliff, @SFI_elibby, & Kate Skocelas- a truly wonderful higher-level unit! (14/14)
biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
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