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 Explaining religion 4 – Wolves and gods 6 Nov 2007 The saying that “man is a wolf to man” comes from a saying of Erasmus of Rotterdam, but it is incomplete. The Latin is Homo homini aut deus aut lupus or “Man is either a god or a wolf to man”. I’m beginning to wonder if there is a difference… Read More
Book Books 25 Aug 2008 In addition to Fuller’s Science versus Religion, I also received my copy of Phil Dowe’s Galileo, Darwin and Hawking last week, and today arrives Roy Davies’ The Darwin Conspiracy (thanks, Roy; I will be as even handed as I can be), and Frank Schaeffer’s Crazy for God. So I am… Read More
Evolution I hate a barnacle… 6 Jan 2008 …said Charles Darwin, more than any man ever has. He should have, too – he spent seven years of his life working up the first encyclopedic monograph on the group. But that pales into insignificance compared to Alan Southward, who died last year. The Other 95% has a very nice… 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?