Re: Minimal language VS Maximal language
No, I meant genetic.
Genetic algorithms are simply that: "Mother Nature, only in silicon."
Quality wrote:
> Don -- I think Greg meant "generic" not "genetic"... ???
>
> Don Groves <groves at ACM.ORG> wrote:
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> >At 22:35 2/16/99 -0800, Greg Phillips wrote:
> >>All this brings to mind an article I read a while ago.
> >>
> >>Students and professors at some university are using a genetic algorithm
> >>to create a new, useful, programming language. Then, the computer,
> >>using a neural network, would teach itself the language, and write an
> >>improved genetic algorithm, to create an improved language, and an
> >>improved neural net.
> >>
> >>Which is scary.
> >
> >Sounds a lot like Mother Nature, only in silicon.
> >Are the days of carbon-based lifeforms numbered? 
> >--
> >Don Groves
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