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What’s the definition of best

• goatlover 9y ago
  350,000 species of beetles.
  • TheOtherHobbes 9y ago
    In music, evolution produced Bach, so it can't really be considered a failure. It took a while though, and it's possible alternative approaches would have been produced a similar result more efficiently.
    • cvaidya1986 9y ago
      I love HN community. Awesome responses!
    • goatlover 9y ago
      It also produced Justin Bieber and Weird Al. Point being, if the goal of your evolutionary algorithm is Bach, how do you filter for that result among the other million possibilities? And what makes Bach the success of music? Maybe more people prefer listening to Taylor Swift.
• sabertoothed 9y ago
  Not having a 5 meter detour [1] of a nerve. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recurrent_laryngeal_nerve https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recurrent_laryngeal_nerve
• deleted 9y ago
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