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Music By Natural Selection

Posted by samzenpus on from the survival-of-the-grooviest dept.

maccallr writes "The DarwinTunes experiment needs you! Using an evolutionary algorithm and the ears of you the general public, we've been evolving a four bar loop that started out as pretty dismal primordial auditory soup and now after >27k ratings and 200 generations is sounding pretty good. Given that the only ingredients are sine waves, we're impressed. We got some coverage in the New Scientist CultureLab blog but now things have gone quiet and we'd really appreciate some Slashdotter idle time. We recently upped the maximum 'genome size' and we think that the music is already benefiting from the change."

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  1. Sine waves by ceoyoyo · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Given that the only ingredients are sine waves, we're impressed."

    This is different from all other sounds, including regular music, how?

    1. Re:Sine waves by raymansean · · Score: 5, Funny

      Because they have cosine waves too :-)

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    2. Re:Sine waves by roadkill-maker · · Score: 5, Funny

      Because they have cosine waves too :-)

      Sounds shifty to me

    3. Re:Sine waves by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      More importantly, they are not asinine ...

    4. Re:Sine waves by kurzweilfreak · · Score: 5, Funny

      Where the hell were you in the 80's? o.O

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    5. Re:Sine waves by Tablizer · · Score: 2, Funny

      Because they have cosine waves too :-)

      Sounds shifty to me

      Dude, that was an offbeat comment.
           

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    6. Re:Sine waves by Darinbob · · Score: 2, Funny

      This seems somewhat tangential.

    7. Re:Sine waves by atomicthumbs · · Score: 5, Funny

      Don't let it phase you.

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    8. Re:Sine waves by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      You're going off at a tangent.

  2. Already slashdotted ? by PIBM · · Score: 2, Funny

    No reply yet and the website can't even load.. now I understand why we don't RTFA!

    1. Re:Already slashdotted ? by RendonWI · · Score: 5, Funny

      Maybe they are trying to evolve their server into one that can handle a slashdot load.

    2. Re:Already slashdotted ? by paxcoder · · Score: 5, Funny

      Update: The icon has loaded.

  3. Isn't this the opposite of evolution? by not-too-smatr · · Score: 1, Funny

    In fact, isn't this playing God?

    1. Re:Isn't this the opposite of evolution? by Vintermann · · Score: 2, Funny

      Polytheism in a nutshell!

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  4. Re:Sine waves? by DoofusOfDeath · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's called country music.

    Well, technically it could be represented by sine waves, but the sine waves refused to represent THAT!

    It's doable, you just need to use sine waves that are wearing cowboy hats.

  5. Re:WARNING: AntivirusXP by cl0s · · Score: 5, Funny

    Thanks for the warning.. I was trying to install it using Wine.

  6. Careful what you ask for! by FlyByPC · · Score: 2, Funny

    >...but now things have gone quiet and we'd really appreciate some Slashdotter idle time.

    Your wish is our Slashdotting! That's a name-brand CPU cooling solution you're running, right? Gooood.

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  7. Re:Sine waves? by Beardo+the+Bearded · · Score: 3, Funny

    That would be...

    *sunglasses*...

    cowsine

    YEEAAAAAAAHH!

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  8. Re:Sine waves? by mcpkaaos · · Score: 2, Funny

    Warning: if you follow the parent's link you will be Ricker Rolled.

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