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Genetic Algorithm Car Evolution Using Box2D Physics (v2.2)
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This is quite interesting. An algorithm that "evolves" to discover the best "car" (2D graphic representation) for the terrain that it's driving upon.
What is interesting about this is less the program than the idea that we can somehow create software that evolves with the tastes of the times and the user. Solutions that anticipate problems and "evolve" to overcome them. Programs that can evolve strategies to solve problems in mathematics and physics, like the Big Bang Theory or String Theory, or how to calculate prime numbers...
Link: http://www.boxcar2d.com/
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And a video that should raise a few questions about the mind-body connection. Don't worry, it's short.
Tom Thumb
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That I was in Philadelphia at a flea market, there's an antique dealer there who has a couple of small dancing wood figures on sticks, they're well carved, with that heavy aged patina and magnets on their feet...he tells me that they're part of a "Tom Thumb" game and shows me the rest, there are some magnets they would play with, and an old metal tractor seat that's been beaten into a game board, and he's searching around for the box.
I'm intrigued. I've never seen anything quite like this, and I ask him how much..
He sucks in his breath and goes to tell me...I'm waiting, he's humming and hawing, telling me how rare it is and I'm expecting, 50, maybe a hundred bucks.
$280 dollars with many assurances of it's rarity and value.
Now I could buy it, but it's a bit too expensive and there's other things that I want and he assures me that he comes this way every week, he's from Boston but he does "The Tour" so I can think upon it and I'm wondering how in this part of the world distances are so small....
of Camping in the back yard
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And I dreamed that it was late summer and the ex had told me I should take the kids (? my daughter, the owner of the restaurant's daughter) camping in the back yard....and so I wandered and found that the back yard extended for acres until finally it reached a fence before a lane. Late summer, leaves heavy on huge trees, golden grasses, sun setting. A beautiful place for a campsite. And I went to find my way back but no longer was this my yard, it was someone else's yard and I had to cut through many lanes and alleys to find my way home...
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