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To: Neocon who wrote (41387)4/2/1999 10:45:00 AM
From: TigerPaw  Read Replies (1) of 67261
 
Darwinian evolution is not the mechanism by which software is refined.
Programming is very much like breeding pidgeons for longer feathers or some other characteristic. Of course we can't yet compile a pidgeon or mix in frog feet to get the desired effect (I'm not sure that this possibility if that far off). In this way it is more like artificial selection (the term usually used for selective breeding).

There are some purely darwinian programs. I have patented programs using artifical neural nets which do usefull things, which I intended them to do, but I have no real idea what is going on at more than a mechanical level. The programs were trained to the desired result but picked their own algorythm from initially random inputs (and a selection process).
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