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 New work on speciation 5 Aug 2008 Just lately there’s been a flurry of papers on speciation that I haven’t had time to digest properly. Several of them seem to support “sympatric” or localised speciation based on selection for local resources with reproductive isolation a side effect of divergent selection. So here they are below the fold… Read More
Evolution Dissecting a flying pterothingy 26 Mar 2009 It’s true! Dinosaurs still exist. John Conway dissected a Rhamphorhyncus, and drew what he saw, here. I had “dinosaur” in the title but as Chris points out, that’s a bad error, like calling a mammal a turtle. Damn, I’m not having much luck. Not a pteranodon then… 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?