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Microchips That Evolve
[43]Technology Posted by [44]timothy on Tuesday April 10, @06:46AM
from the one-day-I'll-evolve-too dept.
An Onymous Coward writes: "A scientist in Britain has apparently
developed some genetic algorithms that run on microchips that can alter
themselves, in other words, hardware that evolves. Pretty cool. Check
out the [45]column by Paul Gilster." The article contributes some
background I'd never heard before regarding FPGAs, and even mentions
the dogged [46]Starbridge. A short but fun read.
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Umm.... (Score:1)
by [58]aarondyck (aarondyck@hotmail.com) on Tuesday April 10, @06:49AM
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Uhh...does anyone else find this as frightening as I do? Just think of
the ramifications of evolving computers...think, oh, I don't know, the
Matrix or something...
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* [63]Re:Umm.... by grammar nazi (Score:2) Tuesday April 10, @06:52AM
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* [65]Re:Umm.... by eXtro (Score:1) Tuesday April 10, @07:04AM EST
Slave labour (Score:1)
by [66]morie (slashdot-at-effezonderdollen-dot-com) on Tuesday April
10, @06:58AM EST ([67]#11)
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I do NOT want my computer to evolve, especially not to a point where it
me become aware of the slave labour it has been doing up until then. It
might just get ideas of 40 hr. workweeks, hardware equivalents to
dental plans etc.
Think of solutions, not of problems
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Small bodies? (Score:2)
by [72]cperciva (cperciva@sfu.ca) on Tuesday April 10, @06:58AM EST
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What's the deal with small story bodies? I've seen stories with 1 byte,
4 bytes, 10 bytes, and 42 bytes today.
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updside downside (Score:2)
by [77]deran9ed (george.bush@suffers.from.learning.deficiency.org) on
Tuesday April 10, @06:58AM EST ([78]#14)
([79]User #300694 Info) [80]http://www.deficiency.org
Downside:
Windows running this would
Turn your 1ghz box into a 386 that bluescreens
Upside
Linux running this would:
Create its own code for its own kernels
FreeBSD running this would:
spin off and create a port for something other than i386 arch
OpenBSD running this would:
Not allow anything to ever be installed because it may be deemed
insecure
NetBSD running this would:
Create another port, then wait a year or two to let you use it
[81]view the source Luke!
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Nothing New (Score:1)
by NonReal on Tuesday April 10, @06:59AM EST ([84]#16)
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This is nothing new, Discover Magazine ran an article about this a few
years ago :
"Thompson has evolved a circuit that distinguishes between two tones,
two electric signals that, if fed into a stereo speaker, would produce
two notes. One has a frequency of 1 kilohertz, the other 10 kilohertz"
It's the same guy and the same evolved chip! Once again Slashdot has
missed the boat.
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* [88]Re:Nothing New by NonReal (Score:1) Tuesday April 10, @07:01AM
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Imagine... (Score:1)
by 9sPhere on Tuesday April 10, @07:04AM EST ([89]#20)
([90]User #366435 Info)
... program,compile, reboot, SHIT! ...program, compile, reboot, SHIT!
all at about 1.3GHZ
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Here is a completely unrelated Slashdot article... (Score:1)
by [93]donny (dccheung@uwaterloo.ca) on Tuesday April 10, @07:05AM EST
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([95]User #165416 Info) [96]http://cacr.math.uwaterloo.ca/~dccheung/
...about the same guy.
[97]http://slashdot.org/articles/99/08/27/1238213.shtm l
Heck, this one's more informative.
Donny
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Consequence? (Score:1)
by HiQ on Tuesday April 10, @07:05AM EST ([100]#22)
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could be assembled to create artificial nervous systems...
A nervous system? My system can get quite nervous from time to time,
ending in a kernel panic :)
.sigh
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