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Re: Computer-Controlled Players - simulated evolution

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From: Peter Y. Chen
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1992 20:34
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In article <1992Sep2.182709.19045@news.media.mit.edu> tsmaster@media.mit.edu (David LeCompte) writes:
>In article <Btx892.1yD@acsu.buffalo.edu> goetz@acsu.buffalo.edu (Phil Goetz) writes:
>I started playing around with an old game that I had written that used
>programmed players and I used GAs on their code. Now, at first I said
>that since I was dealing with machine language and not genes, I would
>get only garbage out. And indeed, I seeded the initial population with
>some robots that I had written. Within 5 generations, my population was
>uniform, and nearly identical to one of my seed robots.
>
>However, I tried again (on a 486, this time :) and I have got some
>interesting behaviors quite randomly. I think that I am going to have to
>add a little bit more randomness into the brew, because things are
>beginning to look too uniform again.
>

Sounds interesting.  Care to share your code with us?

-- Peter 
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