I should have said that's only for the ones that output numbers rather than computable functions etc.
On 24 March 2014 13:15, LizR <[email protected]> wrote: > The use of oracles to see if a programme will halt strikes me as > unnecessary. Why not define fitness as producing a suitable output within a > suitable time (a real organism that always did the most optimal thing, but > only did so slowly, wouldn't survive very long). > > So one could simply run each programme and see if it produces a result in > a specified time, or use output length / time as the fitness (so a fast > less accurate result might still be better - consider a real organism > again!). Once the time gets too long that no possible output could be > fitter than the one you already have, abort the mutated programme and > declare it unfit. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
