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Re:New finding: 600M years ago, a single mutation changed ev... by pyre on Monday January 11, 2016 @06:06PM (#10884324)
It sounds like @fpgaminer is saying that when humans created something similar (the neural nets of the 90's) it had issues (local maxima) until we increased the complexity (the number of variables that the system could/did respond to) in a way that started approaching the complexity of evolution.
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Re:New finding: 600M years ago, a single mutation changed ev... by fiatjaf on Monday January 11, 2016 @06:18PM (#10884389)
Thank you.
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