You know you’re a nerd when… 23 Jan 2009 this makes you laugh out loud: It’s even relevant to this blog… Evolution Humor
Evolution Edis on Islamic creationism 21 Feb 2008 One of the more curious episodes in recent cultural history is the adoption, word for word, by Islamists particularly in Turkey of the American Christian fundamentalist antievolution schtick. Nobody knows more about this than Taner Edis, whose book An Illusion of Harmony: Science And Religion in Islam outlines how this… Read More
Evolution A quote: On philosophers and evolution 23 Mar 2010 Another curious aspect of the theory of evolution is that everybody thinks he understands it. I mean philosophers, social scientists, and so on. While in fact very few people understand it, actually, as it stands, even as it stood when Darwin expressed it, and even less as we now may… Read More
Ecology and Biodiversity The first use of a taxonomic tree 10 Apr 2009 Older histories of biology are often full of useful and interesting facts. One of my all-time favourites is Eric Nordenskiöld’s history, but I came across an earlier one by Louis Compton Miall in which I found this text: Bonnet in 1745 traced the scale of nature in fuller detail than… Read More
But wouldn’t it be too late to evaluate the fitness of something that has already become Skynet? Also, what if becoming Skynet is the least expensive option in the problem domain? That’s only the equivalent of 22 million water crossings.
But wouldn’t it be too late to evaluate the fitness of something that has already become Skynet? Also, what if becoming Skynet is the least expensive option in the problem domain? That’s only the equivalent of 22 million water crossings.
But wouldn’t it be too late to evaluate the fitness of something that has already become Skynet? Also, what if becoming Skynet is the least expensive option in the problem domain? That’s only the equivalent of 22 million water crossings.
You just put in a function that checks if your algorithm is going to become Skynet in the next generation, before you actually apply the fitness function. That’s what I do. And you don’t want the evolution of Skynet to be impossible, just costly.
You just put in a function that checks if your algorithm is going to become Skynet in the next generation, before you actually apply the fitness function. That’s what I do. And you don’t want the evolution of Skynet to be impossible, just costly.
John – Whatever you had linked to has moved on – there’s nothing visible about Skynet there now – at least not from the USA!
Ian, I still get the xkcd page (with rollover – which reminds you that you want to minimize, not maximize, the function).
Ian, I still get the xkcd page (with rollover – which reminds you that you want to minimize, not maximize, the function).
Ian, I still get the xkcd page (with rollover – which reminds you that you want to minimize, not maximize, the function).
Ian, I still get the xkcd page (with rollover – which reminds you that you want to minimize, not maximize, the function).
Nevermind. Spent 10 seconds to look it up myself. Does this mean I lose nerd-cred, both for not automatically knowing this (sorry, watched the first movie, liked it, thought the second was a lot of lame, and never watched anything else dealing with the Terminator), and for not googling it?
Nevermind. Spent 10 seconds to look it up myself. Does this mean I lose nerd-cred, both for not automatically knowing this (sorry, watched the first movie, liked it, thought the second was a lot of lame, and never watched anything else dealing with the Terminator), and for not googling it?
Nevermind. Spent 10 seconds to look it up myself. Does this mean I lose nerd-cred, both for not automatically knowing this (sorry, watched the first movie, liked it, thought the second was a lot of lame, and never watched anything else dealing with the Terminator), and for not googling it?