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Hibernating Frogs

08 March 07 - 05:03 am
I just thought I'd mention that last weekend I had a population of frogs that evolved hibernation naturally. Frogs use the least energy when resting, 5 times less than any other biot. This is because of those legends of ancient frogs living in stasis inside stones for decades. I did specifically expect to eventually see a natural hibernation stratagy evolve in Biots. It was nice to see it actually happen last weekend. The population was really successful too. They were around for a few dozen "years" at least. Eventually they were usurped by some Gilas, probably after a dramatic climate change. I wasn't watching the entire time.

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Polish Notation Parser in ActionScript

07 March 07 - 09:16 am
I'm planning on writing a Space Shooter that evolves enemies using a Genetic Algorithm. To do this, I need a simple programming language that the enemies will follow. I'm planning on building it using Polish Notation because then I don't have to bother with precedence and can just breeze through strings to evaluate them as code. The first hurdle is the Artimetic Operators... more

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