Once i had to collect a lot of info from a website. I used java and wget and some java html parser library (possibly JTidy). anyway the code was very short and clean. I'd recommend DOM walking to other solutions when the data isn't trivial.
This would result in increased success of the family group, including this genetic trait of homosexuality.
Good point, I hadn't thought of it that way. Maybe evolution isn't losing it's touch after all. On the other hand the lowest n percentile of humans these days have a fairly good chance of reproducing (at a guess) a better chance of reproducing than they did a couple hundred years ago.
Yea you may be right. There are a couple signs of evolution losing its touch. For example the fact that homosexuality exists.
But anyway that bug in my program occurs because the genes of the best being become so popular that theres virtually no difference between all the beings in the sim, and once they're at that point they inbreed and die.
I wrote a program a couple years ago that uses neural nets and a genetic algorithm to evolve beings. It doesn't simulate the so called abiogenesis event but intelligence is certainly evolved. Check out the Java applet:
http://peberdy.addr.com/jp/projects/page.php?p=ai
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Once i had to collect a lot of info from a website. I used java and wget and some java html parser library (possibly JTidy). anyway the code was very short and clean. I'd recommend DOM walking to other solutions when the data isn't trivial.
Good point, I hadn't thought of it that way. Maybe evolution isn't losing it's touch after all. On the other hand the lowest n percentile of humans these days have a fairly good chance of reproducing (at a guess) a better chance of reproducing than they did a couple hundred years ago.
But anyway that bug in my program occurs because the genes of the best being become so popular that theres virtually no difference between all the beings in the sim, and once they're at that point they inbreed and die.
I wrote a program a couple years ago that uses neural nets and a genetic algorithm to evolve beings. It doesn't simulate the so called abiogenesis event but intelligence is certainly evolved. Check out the Java applet: http://peberdy.addr.com/jp/projects/page.php?p=ai