Apologies for the late dearth of posts .. the beginning of the school year has kept me quite busy. Ironically, it is the school year, by and large, that is the reason I started this site, and I look forward to sharing many of the exciting things I encounter in the course of my studies into Informatics.
One such peculiarity is Vaucanson’s Mechanical Duck, a strange automaton constructed using mechanisms similar to those employed by watchmakers. This complicated, deterministic little creation was, at the time, considered to be a stunning manifestation of artificial life, a field I hope detail thoroughly during the coming months.
