From: "Brian Schröder" <ruby@...>
Date: 2004-12-08T01:04:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby (quiz?) simulation idea

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 00:55:17 +0900
James Britt <jamesUNDERBARb@neurogami.com> wrote:

> 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.    

This is not my source, as I don't read scientific american. But it is a very
popular example that can be found in a lot of textbooks about evolution. I also
think it was one of the first theories whose plausiblity was tested by
simulation. In fact I was introduced to the problem in my cognitive science
courses at university.

The interesting thing I found out when trying to simulate it myself, is that it
is not so easy to make a simulation that has the same outcome as nature. As
always in the paper it all sounded a lot clearer.

Regards,

Brian

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Brian Schr�der
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