Bantu expansion shows that habitat alters the route and pace of human dispersals

Re:Bantu expansion shows that habitat alters the route and p... by raverbashing on Sunday September 20, 2015 @10:23AM (#10247599)

Trial and error exists, it's called 'genetic programming'

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Re:Bantu expansion shows that habitat alters the route and p... by rational-future on Sunday September 20, 2015 @10:44AM (#10247684)

The trial in genetic programming is too random, compared to what a human researcher would try.

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Re:Bantu expansion shows that habitat alters the route and p... by chongli on Sunday September 20, 2015 @11:16AM (#10247813)

Doesn't this tear down the entire premise of the article? "Just trial & error" dismisses all the thought that goes into designing experiments and analyzing the data.

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Re:Bantu expansion shows that habitat alters the route and p... by nitrogen on Sunday September 20, 2015 @12:52PM (#10248154)

Human trial and error is more like a hill-climbing algorithm or a localized graph search algorithm, things which computers can do quite well.

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Re:Bantu expansion shows that habitat alters the route and p... by zo1 on Sunday September 20, 2015 @01:59PM (#10248373)

You'd be surprised at how directed forces applied to "random" values yields surprising solutions.

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