john w queen ii
At 11:51 AM 6/18/97, Wesley R. Elsberry wrote:
>John Queen wrote:
>
>JQ>pim---
>JQ> You still dont get my point. The logic can go both
>JQ>ways...its random. Can a very ordered set of information can
>JQ>become more ordered every generation(what would of had to
>JQ>happened for us to get here) through random mutations? I get
>JQ>your reasoning that bad mutations would not propogate, but the
>JQ>chances become even more 'out of this world' each generation
>JQ>that some random mutation will actually improve upon what was
>JQ>previously improved upon.
>JQ> This type of lottery type improvement would had to have
>JQ>happened for millions of generations.
>
>Hmmm. I think that I'd like to see your mathematical writeup
>of this. If you are correct, then genetic algorithms can only
>very rarely converge on good solutions. Since they do converge
>quite regularly on good solutions, I suspect that you have a
>problem somewhere in your assumptions or logic.
>
>Wesley