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Re: On the Genetic Algorithm

• Posted by Matt Lewis <matthewwalkerlewis at gmail.com> Sep 15, 2005
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cklester wrote:
> 
> Matt Lewis wrote:
> > cklester wrote:
> > > DB James wrote:
> 
> > > > If this sort of thing were optimized and tweaked, it could potentially
> > > > generate new
> > > > previously unknown formulas from correct inputs and results, but that is
> > > > far off now...
> > >
> > > How do you determine "correct inputs and results" from "unknown formulas?"
> >
> > You could be dealing with a set of data where you have inputs and outputs,
> > but don't know what sort of function maps between the two.
> 
> Where would you ever obtain such a dataset (input values and their related
> output values)?

Could be some physical/natural phenomena.  Or economics.  Maybe you
wanted to come up with a new algorithm/formula for predicting hurricanes.
Or wanted to find some relationship between the price of gold and the
average length of skirts (yes, this has actually been studied, and 
correlations have been actually been found).

Matt Lewis