Evolutionary algorithms computes the best blackjack strategy

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Don't want to learn about evolutionary algorithms the usual way, by generating sentences from random letters, or randomly placing pixels to generate the Mona Lisa? Then make your own evolutionary algorithm! With blackjack! [Brian] has been playing around with evolutionary algorithms, and wanted a task that's well suited for optimization. He chose blackjack, because of the limited number of … [Read more...]

On not designing circuits with evolutionary algorithms

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[Henrik] has been working on a program to design electronic circuits using evolutionary algorithms. It's still very much a work in progress, but he's gotten to the point of generating a decent BJT inverter after 78 generations (9 minutes of compute time), as shown in the .gif above. To evolve these circuits, [Henrik] told a SPICE simulation to generate an inverter with a 5V power … [Read more...]