Re: COMP: Breeding a Better Engine

From: GBurch1@aol.com
Date: Sat Jun 17 2000 - 22:36:30 MDT


In a message dated 6/17/00 11:31:41 PM Central Daylight Time, random@qnet.com
writes:

> Of course, evolution can't make major breaks with past art.

Hmmmm . . . I'm wondering how I got here, as I contemplate the bacteria under
my fingernails . . . .

> No amount
> of Diesel engine design evolution will give you a Stirling cycle.
> Design does have its place.

Probably not -- at least in a reasonable amount of time. But GAs will become
better and better tools for optimizing rough design concepts. Maybe even I
could become an engineer with sufficiently advanced evolutionary design
software!

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