Python from Wise Guy's Viewpoint

[John Atwood]

Andrew Dalke <adalke at mindspring.com> wrote:

>The best examples of resilent architectures I've seen come from
>genetic algorithms and other sorts of feedback training; eg,
>subsumptive architectures for robotics and evolvable hardware.
>There was a great article in CACM on programming an FPGA
>via GAs, in 1998/'99 (link, anyone?).  It worked quite well (as
>I recall) but pointed out the hard part about this approach is
>that it's hard to understand, and the result used various defects
>on the chip (part of the circuit wasn't used but the chip wouldn't
>work without it) which makes the result harder to mass produce.

something along these lines?
  http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/users/adrianth/cacm99/node3.html


John