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Tag: biology

  • Evolution: a simulation

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    This is a video report of a software project that created the conditions for evolution in an attempt to learn something about how evolution works in nature. This is for the programmer looking for ideas for interdisciplinary programming projects, or for anyone interested in how evolution and natural selection work. 56 mins. It’s available on…

  • Genetic Algorithms for Automated Source Code Evolution: a C++11 tutorial

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    Join me in some recreational C++ programming. Our project is to make a genetic algorithm that will evolve the source code for a program that, when run, will compute and output the solution to something. Our target source language is a tiny language called Iota, made specially for this purpose. We’ll also talk about how…