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To: Greg or e who wrote (50816)	3/26/2014 12:00:21 AM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (3) of 69300

odds of information forming randomly Darwin did not propose the theory of "Everything randomly went from chaos to what we have now in a step". The theory is natural selection with the emphasis on selection. Selection is anything but random. I used a random algorithm to test computers (prior to my retirement). The program took random computer instructions and ran them at marginal conditions. Automatic processing ran thousands of iterations a night. If the random instructions happened to trigger a failure then that set of instructions was saved, otherwise they were discarded. The saved patterns were used to generate slightly modified versions of themselves with a few instructions randomly changed. They were run by the thousands and those which could find a failure at slightly less marginal conditions were saved while the rest were discarded. This process was a close simulation of natural selection. It resulted in test instruction combinations which identified the slowest, most power hungry combinations of instructions. These could be addressed by the designers, making the next iteration of the chips just a little bit faster and cooler than the current.

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