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Subject: Re: "It's alive, I tell you! It's alive!"

Author: Matthew Hull

Date: 09:18:10 05/12/05

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On May 12, 2005 at 12:09:11, Steven Edwards wrote:

>On May 12, 2005 at 11:54:16, Matthew Hull wrote:
>>On May 12, 2005 at 11:47:54, Steven Edwards wrote:
>
>>How long did it take to complete the 1297 cycles?
>
>On my trusty 400 MHz PowerPC G$: about ten seconds to load the test suite, about
>ten seconds to initialize the habitat, and maybe fifteen minutes of breeding
>time.
>
>>I suppose the cycle length depends upon the number of problems in the test, too?
>
>And upon the complexity of the positions (for setup time), the number of breeder
>organisms, the number of microfeatures in use, and the speed of the processor.


So, the initial test shows some success.  You also indicate in another post that
a more comprehensive problem set will be the next step, at which point you will
have a mate-attack organism thingy with which to work.  How many other organisms
do you estimate will be needed to get a basic cognitive process to start taking
over from the toolkit?  Do you have a preliminary list of these in mind?



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