Hmm:
Gautam John wrote:
Don't invent, evolve
From Economist.com
The inventor's trial-and-error approach can be automated by software
that mimics natural selection
I'm doing a course in Heuristic Optimization (Simulated Annealing,
Genetic Algorithms, Tabu Search, Evolutionary Programming) and it's
pretty amazing what Moore's law (effectively) has done to the area.
Satisfiability[1] problems that were considered impossible in the 1990s
is now a 1 credit project (!) for the course.
Cheerio,
M
[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Boolean_satisfiability_problem&oldid=160870720
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Madhu M Kurup /* Nemo Me Impune Lacessit */ mmk222 at cornell dt edu
