Re: [silk] Don’t invent, evolve

2007-10-07 Thread Jim Grisanzio
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 Very cool stuff. It just goes to show the value of always iterating and that there is really no such thing as failure /if/ you keep g

Re: [silk] Don’t invent, evolve

2007-10-07 Thread Madhu M Kurup
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) a

[silk] Don’t invent, evolve

2007-10-07 Thread Gautam John
Don't invent, evolve >From Economist.com The inventor's trial-and-error approach can be automated by software that mimics natural selection "I HAVE not failed. I have just found 10,000 ways that won't work." So said Thomas Edison, the prolific inventor, speaking of his laborious attempts to perf