Fanboys of the latecomer software Eureqa have been seeking press lately in various venues.<p>Software like this goes back decades: Lenat's AM and EURISKO, Simon et al's various BACON programs, Koza's genetic programming, Muggleton's excellent ILP softwares, etc. are all examples. Eureqa is based on genetic algorithms, IIRC. Nothing new, but another application, in this case experiment planning.
God I hate the mobile version of extremetech.<p>Sorry, off topic, but this overengenering trend of reinventing everything in JavaScript is a pain.<p>All this trouble for making your content presentation and interaction worse and less accessible.<p>It would be a much better experience if you just let my perfectly capable browser simply scroll your site.
This quote:<p><pre><code> “Biology is more complex than astronomy or physics or chemistry,”
says John Wikswo, a Vanderbilt professor who worked on ABE.
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Caught my eye. Unfortunately, it also put me off reading the article. Isn't biology an application of physics and chemistry? What else is there? Sorry if I'm sounding hopelessly naïve ...
For the interested, this appears to be [one of] the original paper[s]: <a href="http://creativemachines.cornell.edu/sites/default/files/wikswo-lipson.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://creativemachines.cornell.edu/sites/default/files/wiks...</a>