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Common sense from the machine learning side too! (that said, the ex-physicist in me would like to remind everyone that science and reality are not required to
by fizx 8y ago
Common sense from the machine learning side too! (that said, the ex-physicist in me would like to remind everyone that science and reality are not required to match your common sense)
If true, this means that evolution could look more like stochastic gradient descent, and less like brute force luck plus survival of the fittest.
- onychomys 8y agoFrom an evolution point of view, it actually just means that selection happens at the organismal level, not the gene level.
- fizx 8y agoYou misunderstand my point... larger ratio of base pairs to behavior means that the behavior is likely more robust to noise, and the original evolution of the behavior would have been smoother (i.e. proceeded in less of a step-wise manner, because each step would be a much smaller fraction of the required change than previously thought).
- politician 8y agoTraits embedded into a dense vector space encoded as DNA base pairs is a pretty radical deviation from the one-hot vector approach we were taught in school. Wouldn't it be lovely if we found that vector addition worked similarly in this domain?