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Re:Using Genetic Algorithms to Break Things by hershel on Sunday May 25, 2014 @11:25AM (#7796533)
> balancing fitness and variation, so that if the environment changes drastically the entire population does not die off.

How can this property be advantageous for technological systems ?

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Re:Using Genetic Algorithms to Break Things by j2kun on Sunday May 25, 2014 @12:07PM (#7796635)
If this is what GAs are doing then it would imply it's not a good technique for single-purpose optimization at all. It could be a good technique, for example, for designing robust agents to interact in some environment, such as robots walking or viruses in an unknown network.
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