Monthly Archives: January 2005

Evolution Two – the return of the dot

Posted on Tuesday, January 25th, 2005 at 11:57 am.

crossRate=0.5 populationSize=20 stringLength=64 mutation rate=0.01 generationCount=5

Modal popup window

Posted on Monday, January 24th, 2005 at 6:05 pm.

Are you nerdier?

Posted on Monday, January 24th, 2005 at 11:50 am.

Springwatch

Posted on Wednesday, January 19th, 2005 at 11:16 am.

‘Springwatch is the biggest ever survey into the arrival of spring across the UK. It’s run by the BBC in association with the Woodland Trust and the UK Phenology Network.’ ‘We would like you to watch out for and record your first sightings of any of the six species below.’ and wouldn’t you know it [...]

grafedia

Posted on Tuesday, January 18th, 2005 at 1:53 pm.

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Technorati Whack – DataMining

Posted on Friday, January 14th, 2005 at 1:28 pm.

DataMining

Bournemouth

Posted on Thursday, January 13th, 2005 at 12:01 pm.

Lovely…

IxD

Posted on Monday, January 10th, 2005 at 12:12 pm.

Lovely example of bad interaction design – I was walking past some flats yesterday and happened across the below. Brought some wonderful images to mind of children parking cars and the emergency services having to pay and display round the corner to attend an incident. It may obvious what the message is meant to be [...]

Genetic algorithms

Posted on Friday, January 7th, 2005 at 6:09 pm.

Evolve

Posted on Friday, January 7th, 2005 at 12:51 pm.

* Create an initial population of randomly-generated individuals * Evaluate each member’s fitness (“fitness” depends entirely on the task in hand; a member’s fitness might be how many 1s its genes contain, or how well it plays chess using its genes as “weights” for various evaluation parameters) * Kill the bottom x% (least fit) of [...]