Richardthughes
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Joined: Jan. 2006
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Davescot Bluffs:
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Spare me. Were you a programmer when “Expert Systems” were all the fad? I was. Before and after. Like rule based decision making in software was something no one had ever done before some marketing genius decided to call it “Expert Systems” to see if it would sell better. Artificial Intelligence is the same story. 25 years ago I was working in the CAD/CAM industry with what’s called auto-router software. This is software that undertakes the enormously complex task of finding a way to route traces on a circuit board in the least number of copper layers. Circuit board cost rises exponentially as number of layers increases and production yield goes in the opposite direction. Rules for clearances between traces, width of thru holes, etc. all adjustable with the same tradeoffs. We implimented genetic algorithms, artificial intelligence, and expert systems in that software before anyone ever heard the terms and we weren’t pompous enough to think we were inventing anything new. Imagine how we laugh when some young idiot or clueless academician picks up something we were doing when they were still crapping gerber baby food and gives it some hoity-toity name like it’s something new. Please, please spare me.
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Sorry Dave, no-one is buying that. You think GA's are itterative loop problem solvers that walk through the statespace of the problem until a solution hits them. You've said so yourself.
It's like someone is explaining a Formula One car and Dave is saying "Yes, I've worked with horses".All Hail king Tard!
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