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GENETIC PROGRAMMING. "My 'ant colony' produced ants that got progressively better at finishing the first 80% of the maze, but the maze got more difficult towards the end, and as things got more difficult, they got stuck - so they would get faster and faster at getting 80% of the way there and then, unable to figure out the next bit, just hide to maximize the 'points' my system would grant them, and their chances of survival - how awesome is that! - my own (extremely basic) computer system outsmarted me." https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/3d3vct View in LinkedIn

EXAPTATION "is a term used in evolutionary biology to describe a trait that has been co-opted for a use other than the one for which natural selection has built it." Darwin first conceived of the idea. http://www.livescience.com/39688-exaptation.html View in LinkedIn

BACKDOOR. "Unused gates still present parasitic loading. It can affect timing and therefore the output waveforms." https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/3d3vct View in LinkedIn

"EVOLVING COMPUTER CHIPS is a huge part of creating a good AI. There are already several companies working with this technology. When it was first worked up it created such efficient chips that they couldn't be replicated, as they made use of microscopic differences and scratches on the chip itself." The adaptive genetic toolkit of exaptation. Nice. https://lnkd.in/evQuB2z View in LinkedIn

SO ENDS this first weekend on the theme of perfection in nature. Humans want to see order in the universe, stability, and perfection. Some of the recent ideas that humanity has encountered are those of chaos, instability and change, and imperfection. These ideas are unsettling to many, and to the collective consciousness that has been fed an ordered hierarchical world. And the quantum world in particular has put the fox in with the pigeons. View in LinkedIn

MUTANT KILLS. "Mutation testing (or Mutation analysis or Program mutation) is used to design new software tests and evaluate the quality of existing software tests. Mutation testing involves modifying a program in small ways. Each mutated version is called a mutant and tests detect and reject mutants by causing the behavior of the original version to differ from the mutant. This is called killing the mutant. Test suites are measured by the percentage of mutants that they kill. New tests can be designed to kill additional mutants." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutation_testing View in LinkedIn

MARCH OF PROGRESS. "In one particular sense the more recent forms must, on my theory, be higher than the more ancients; for each new species is formed by having had some advantage in the struggle for life over other and preceding forms." (Darwin). https://lnkd.in/deybuH5 View in LinkedIn

NOT A NIAEVE QUESTION. "Is it possible for an error to mutate a computer program causing it to evolve in the same way that biological organisms evolve?" https://lnkd.in/evQuB2z View in LinkedIn

FIRST STEPS IN SILICO. "Evolutionary algorithms are awesome! I love the one where scientists used it to get a simulated muscle system to teach itself how to walk: https://vimeo.com/79098420." https://lnkd.in/dEAsbig View in LinkedIn

NON-HUMAN THINKING. "I wrote a chess playing AI, and it would play other AIs in the class. I would think that I saw the best move for it to take but the computer would always have a move I thought was non optimal, but every move had some hidden advantage I couldn't see. I couldn't even beat my ai when I played against it." Despite being the product of the programmer. https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/3d3vct View in LinkedIn