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Why Does Biological Evolution Work? A Minimal Model for Biological Evolution and Other Adaptive Processes
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Why Does Biological Evolution Work? A Minimal Model for Biological Evolution and Other Adaptive Processes

Stephen Wolfram

Why does biological evolution work? And, for that matter, why does machine learning work? Both are examples of adaptive processes that surprise us with what they manage to achieve. So what’s the essence of what’s going on? I’m going to concentrate here on biological evolution, though much of what I’ll discuss is also relevant to machine learning—but I’ll plan to explore that in more detail elsewhere.

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