The work of Duncan Watts, described in this article at Fast Company, has truly profound ramifications. In the past few years, Watts–a network-theory scientist who recently took a sabbatical from Columbia University and is now working for Yahoo NASDAQ:YHOO –has performed a series of controversial, barn-burning experiments challenging the whole Influentials thesis. He has analyzed [...]
Entries Tagged as 'evolutionaryalgorithms'
All Order is Illusion
January 26th, 2008 · 1 Comment · economics, evolutionaryalgorithms, statistical models, strategy, systems
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Fascinating visual evolution experiment
October 2nd, 2007 · No Comments · evolutionaryalgorithms, hacking, internet, participation, philosophy, statistical models, systems
Over at Mutating Pictures, Philipp Lensman started wit a pool of 1000 randomly created images, and is asking people to rate how much each image looks like a face. He put the site up yesterday, and look how far it’s come. There’s also a forum at Google Blogoscoped, where technical details and the implementation are [...]
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Latest engineering debate: Evolution vs. Intelligent Design
September 29th, 2007 · No Comments · evolutionaryalgorithms, systems
Fascinating article in New Scientist Tech about the increasing utility of “evolutionary algorithms” across a wide range of engineering disciplines. Engineers create a simulation of the context of the problem for which they are trying to create a solution, then allow the components of the solution to be rearranged randomly and tested by computer software. [...]
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