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This post reminded me of the below post (from 2007!): https://www.damninteresting.com/on-the-origin-of-circuits/ https://www.damninteresting.com/on-the-origin-
by alexpotato 2y ago
This post reminded me of the below post (from 2007!):
https://www.damninteresting.com/on-the-origin-of-circuits/ https://www.damninteresting.com/on-the-origin-of-circuits/
Summary:
- Researcher took a FPGA
- used genetic algorithms to have the FPGA identify first tones and then more complex audio sequences
- there was no clock or timer used
- when they found a good solution, they tried to copy over the FPGA "configuration" to another identical FPGA.
- that didn't work!
- they assumed it was b/c the genetic algorithm + no timer had found a quirk in the specific FPGA unit and used that to help improve the processing quality