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Re:Feathers Are One of Evolution's Cleverest Inventions by thfuran on Thursday April 18, 2024 @09:25AM (#40075967)
Evolution doesn't do back propagation.
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Re:Feathers Are One of Evolution's Cleverest Inventions by arrow7000 on Thursday April 18, 2024 @11:11AM (#40077078)
The evolutionary fitness of a particular adaptation helps spread the genes that causes the adaptation. I think backpropagation is a very apt description for that phenomenon
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Re:Feathers Are One of Evolution's Cleverest Inventions by klyrs on Thursday April 18, 2024 @12:10PM (#40077689)
That's propagation.
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Re:Feathers Are One of Evolution's Cleverest Inventions by cies on Friday April 19, 2024 @04:06AM (#40084417)
I stand corrected. Thanks.
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