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How Evolution Really Works

Thursday, October 25, 2007

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This is a fairly compelling, scientific look at why evolution is a fact using simple computational examples. The video basically states that in an environment with finite resources, predators will push the organisms to evolve. While the first 8mins or so explain how the process works (using simple “organisms” represented by 8 bits) by placing organisms [...]

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Darwin’s Theory of Evolution and Wikipedia

Saturday, October 20, 2007

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This is a brilliant paper (Evolution and the Wisdom of Crowds) written by a software developer that looks at how the people that tend to reject Darwin’s theory of evolution also reject “wisdom of crowds” systems like Wikipedia/Netflix-recommendation-system/etc for the same reason: They simply don’t see how such processes could work (but they obviously do). Here’s [...]

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