[tt] [silk] Don’t invent, evolve

[Eugen Leitl]

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From: Madhu M Kurup <mmk222 at cornell.edu>
Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2007 14:01:09 -0400
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Subject: Re: [silk] Don’t invent, evolve
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Hmm:

Gautam John wrote:
>Don't invent, evolve
>
>From Economist.com
>
>The inventor's trial-and-error approach can be automated by software
>that mimics natural selection
>

I'm doing a course in Heuristic Optimization (Simulated Annealing, 
Genetic Algorithms, Tabu Search, Evolutionary Programming) and it's 
pretty amazing what Moore's law (effectively) has done to the area. 
Satisfiability[1] problems that were considered impossible in the 1990s 
is now a 1 credit project (!) for the course.

Cheerio,
M

[1] 
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Boolean_satisfiability_problem&oldid=160870720
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Madhu M Kurup /* Nemo Me Impune Lacessit */ mmk222 at cornell dt edu

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