Yay! Evolving art!
Saturday, December 13th, 2008 Posted in Creationism, Natural Computation | No Comments »http://rogeralsing.com/2008/12/07/genetic-programming-evolution-of-mona-lisa/ This was all over the internet a few days ago: A programmer who wrote a small application to evolve works of art using transparent polygons. Of course, just to see if I could, I had to duplicate it myself, though ...
Who’s to blame?
Saturday, October 11th, 2008 Posted in Natural Computation, Politics | No Comments »I was wondering today about the global financial meltdown. Everyone seems to be crying out for someone to blame. Most of the time, people blame those who are more successful than them, so it's the city bosses with huge salaries ...
ICR-Baiting
Monday, July 21st, 2008 Posted in Creationism, Natural Computation | No Comments »I just remembered some fun I had a few years ago with the comedy Institute for Creation Research. For those of you who don't know about this particular institution, it's basically a pseudo-scientific front for extreme biblical literalist evangelical Christian ...
Natural Computation
Thursday, July 17th, 2008 Posted in Education, Natural Computation | 2 Comments »It always annoys me when people who don't understand evolution talk about how it's just plain chance, and the probability of random mutations causing co-ordinated adaptive biological processes is infinitely small. Many people will recall Fred Hoyle's sadly misguided comment ...
