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Re:Evolution Is the New Deep Learning by cvaidya1986 on Thursday March 22, 2018 @12:29PM (#16650128)
What’s the definition of best
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Re:Evolution Is the New Deep Learning by sabertoothed on Thursday March 22, 2018 @01:53PM (#16650935)
Not having a 5 meter detour [1] of a nerve.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recurrent_laryngeal_nerve

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Re:Evolution Is the New Deep Learning by goatlover on Thursday March 22, 2018 @12:31PM (#16650154)
350,000 species of beetles.
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Re:Evolution Is the New Deep Learning by TheOtherHobbes on Thursday March 22, 2018 @01:20PM (#16650675)
In music, evolution produced Bach, so it can't really be considered a failure.

It took a while though, and it's possible alternative approaches would have been produced a similar result more efficiently.

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Re:Evolution Is the New Deep Learning by goatlover on Thursday March 22, 2018 @11:17PM (#16654816)
It also produced Justin Bieber and Weird Al. Point being, if the goal of your evolutionary algorithm is Bach, how do you filter for that result among the other million possibilities? And what makes Bach the success of music? Maybe more people prefer listening to Taylor Swift.
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Re:Evolution Is the New Deep Learning by cvaidya1986 on Thursday March 22, 2018 @03:45PM (#16652002)
I love HN community. Awesome responses!
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