The Evolution of the Genetic Algorithm

The key really was to find out using fitness functions, this concept, as this unifying metaphor for talking about very different things. The mechanisms we talk about are much more like the forces that cause evolution to happen. So you know, tulips can't be infinitely scalable because at some point they'll run out of ground or air or water or something. And so that's kind of what we're addressing with fitness functions or more the evolutionary forces than the actual physical street of structural change generated by evolution.

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