On 22/02/2013 19:21, Ian Kelly wrote:
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Indeed, it seems to me that this is basically Richard Dawkins' weasel
program, with the addition of a transformation step in the fitness
function that amounts to running the string through a Brainfuck
interpreter. There is a rather large gap betwe
On 22 February 2013 13:04, Andrew Robinson wrote:
>
> How would you get an interpreter thread to check for a shutdown request
> every N cycles?
> I've read about how to set a timeout based on time, but not on any kind of
> cycle (eg: instruction cycle?) count.
>
> Do you have a python example?
wh
On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 6:04 AM, Andrew Robinson
wrote:
> It's still surprising that even C# would allow a killing of threads.
>
> Resources can be allocated by a thread and tied up was one of the comments
> made on the site I linked; so those resources could be permanently tied up
> until process
On 02/22/2013 08:23 PM, Ian Kelly wrote:
On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 5:09 AM, Andrew Robinson
wrote:
On 02/22/2013 07:21 PM, Ian Kelly wrote:
I am curious about how he deals with infinite loops in the generated
programs. Probably he just kills the threads after they pass some
time threshold?
I'm
On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 5:09 AM, Andrew Robinson
wrote:
> On 02/22/2013 07:21 PM, Ian Kelly wrote:
>> I am curious about how he deals with infinite loops in the generated
>> programs. Probably he just kills the threads after they pass some
>> time threshold?
>
> I'm under the impression that Pyth
On 02/22/2013 07:21 PM, Ian Kelly wrote:
On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 4:41 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
That's not artificial intelligence, though. It's artificial program
generation based on a known target output. The "Fitness" calculation
is based on a specific target string. This is fine for devisin
On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 4:41 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> That's not artificial intelligence, though. It's artificial program
> generation based on a known target output. The "Fitness" calculation
> is based on a specific target string. This is fine for devising a
> program that will produce the en
On 2013-02-22, Gisle Vanem wrote:
> Disregarding the probability math in the above, the question
> IMHO boils down to whether "art can be produced by accident"
> (quote from above). I seems to recall elephant painting selling
> for lots of dollars some years ago. And long dull poems written
> by c
"Chris Angelico" wrote:
That's not artificial intelligence, though. It's artificial program
generation based on a known target output. The "Fitness" calculation
is based on a specific target string. This is fine for devising a
program that will produce the entire works of Shakespeare, since the
On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 9:11 PM, Gisle Vanem wrote:
> Here is something interesting that you pythonistas might be
> interested in:
> http://www.primaryobjects.com/CMS/Article149.aspx
>
> """This article describes an experiment to produce an AI program, capable of
> developing its own programs, usi
Gisle Vanem wrote:
> Here is something interesting that you pythonistas might be
> interested in:
> http://www.primaryobjects.com/CMS/Article149.aspx
>
> """This article describes an experiment to produce an AI program,
> capable of
> developing its own programs, using a genetic algorithm
Here is something interesting that you pythonistas might be
interested in:
http://www.primaryobjects.com/CMS/Article149.aspx
"""This article describes an experiment to produce an AI program, capable of
developing its own programs, using a genetic algorithm implementation with
self-modifyi
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