Hi bennyska,
I believe that we're working on another circuit this time around.
prok
my girlfriend moved several files around, and the next time i opened island.bat, i started over. i was originally at over 3000 generations, somewhere around there, after maybe a week or so. however, i've already reached that in the past few hours, with a generation every 3 to 6 seconds. also, the characters that represent the circuit (which i'm assuming is genotype) seems to have gotten simpler instead of more complex. is this normal? i was thinking that starting over may have done something simple, like starting lifeforms to evolve in the desert instead of the forest. oh well... should i try to find the previous files, which were much more complex, or just let this thing go?
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Hi bennyska,
I believe that we're working on another circuit this time around.
prok
that would make sense. but it's weird, should the genotype be getting simpler? even now, i'm on generation 8366, and i was on zero around ten or so in the morning, but it's continued to get simpler.
a true friend stabs you in the front
Hi bennyska,
I think that the algorithm is allowed to both add and prune circuit elements, as one of the goals "parsimony" is a drive to reduce the number of elements that make up a circuit, I can easily see how an evolved circuit can be reduced in complexity (we actually want that to reduce the amount of silicon real-estate needed to construct a cell).
prok