From: James Britt <jamesUNDERBARb@...>
Date: 2004-12-08T00:55:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby (quiz?) simulation idea

Brian Schr�der wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 23:25:07 +0900
> James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net> wrote:
> 
> 
>>On Dec 6, 2004, at 7:25 PM, Hal Fulton wrote:
>>
>>
>>>This is just off the top of my head. I thought I'd post it instead of
>>>emailing, in case people want to discuss it and/or think about it.
>>
>>[snip description]
>>
>>Silence means consent?
>>
> 
> 
> I'd like to propose something a bit different that stresses the fact that
> evolution is _not_ survival of the _strongest_ but survival of the _fittest
> population_.
> 
> Maybe you have heard of this theme before, I also tried to simulate it once but
> it didn't work out how I thought, so it should be an interesting problem.

Sounds like something from A.K. Dewdney's Computer Recreations column 
that ran in Scientific American.    He also wrote a book,
The (New) Turing Omnibus: 66 Excursions in Computer Science, that is 
full of good explanations of assorted CompSci principles and concepts.

http://isbn.nu/0805071660

And he created Core Wars.  If there isn't already a good Ruby version of 
that, it might make for a nice quiz.

http://www.koth.org/info/akdewdney/index.html
http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/~anton/cw/corewar-faq.html


James