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To: neolib who wrote (246428)	8/18/2005 12:56:20 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571863

Neolib, Perhaps the problem was not structured correctly? I'm no expert on GA, but for some problems, they can offer an very large improvement over a random approach. Couple of problems. One, what sort of "genes" lead to stimuli that reproduce very focused test cases? And how should "genes" be modeled in order to get us to that focused case in the first place? And two, evolution depends on mutation, but the vast majority of mutations are useless, so once again, how long until we produce a mutation that is actually useful and can "survive" for the future? In any case, the whole "Darwin" tool was originally run on machines that weren't much more powerful than 300 MHz Pentium II machines. These days, with gigahertz speeds and multicore on the horizon, we've got a lot more computing power to work with. Unfortunately, our designs have also gotten a lot more complex, so there you go. Tenchusatsu