Walter Bright Wrote: > strtr wrote: > > Portability will become more important as evo algos get used more. > > Especially > > in combination with threshold functions. The computer will generate/optimize > > all input/intermediate values itself and executing the program on higher > > precision machines might give totally different outputs. > > > You've got a bad algorithm if increasing the precision breaks it.
No, I don't. All algorithms using threshold functions which have been generated using evolutionary algorithms will break by changing the precision. That is, you will need to retrain them. The point of most of these algorithms(eg. neural networks) is that you don't know what is happening in it.
