This is a really quite impressively written article about the very beginning about applying machine learning to circuit design, from the late 90s. Until I foun

This is a really quite impressively written article about the very beginning about applying machine learning to circuit design, from the late 90s. Until I found the associated research paper, I at first wasn't sure if I was reading something real, or some elaborate, convincing creative sci-fi writing. The original 1997 research paper can be read here: https://cse-robotics.engr.tamu.edu/dshell/cs625/Thompson96Evolved.pdf https://cse-robotics.engr.tamu.edu/dshell/cs625/Thompson96Ev...