Tuesday, March 29, 2005
GAs: The real gay science?
Nosophorus reports at the Genetic Argonaut that his prof in a performance analysis course said that soft computing approaches are for homosexuals (Brazilian political correctness is somewhat different than the North American kind, I guess). I love the smell of a reasoned argument in the morning (see related post on toaster convergence).
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Hello, Dr Goldberg.
Yeah, the teacher said that and I think that he was so unhappy doing this. It is very interesting how new ideas often threat the persons who are in some research field for a long time and are used to deal only with old numerical tools. Some times I'm very curious to know what the EC's pioneers(John Holland, Lawrence Fogel, Ingo Rechenberg and Hans-Paul Schewefel) felt when they were developing their ideas and if were too much persons/resistance against them. When the teacher said that soft computing approaches are for homosexuals, I remembered Isaac Newton and his Gravitation Theory, and it's very interesting that other persons made joke about Newton's ideas.
New ideas often threat the old ideas, but I believe that using a clear explanation and practical results, this resistance against soft computing approaches will shrink soon. :D
See You!! :D
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Marcelo (a.k.a Nosophorus)
P.S: Look at the Orkut's Evolutionary Computation Community and a post with GA's and homosexuality.
http://www.orkut.com/CommMsgs.aspx?cmm=11388&tid=8394709
Yeah, the teacher said that and I think that he was so unhappy doing this. It is very interesting how new ideas often threat the persons who are in some research field for a long time and are used to deal only with old numerical tools. Some times I'm very curious to know what the EC's pioneers(John Holland, Lawrence Fogel, Ingo Rechenberg and Hans-Paul Schewefel) felt when they were developing their ideas and if were too much persons/resistance against them. When the teacher said that soft computing approaches are for homosexuals, I remembered Isaac Newton and his Gravitation Theory, and it's very interesting that other persons made joke about Newton's ideas.
New ideas often threat the old ideas, but I believe that using a clear explanation and practical results, this resistance against soft computing approaches will shrink soon. :D
See You!! :D
[]´s
Marcelo (a.k.a Nosophorus)
P.S: Look at the Orkut's Evolutionary Computation Community and a post with GA's and homosexuality.
http://www.orkut.com/CommMsgs.aspx?cmm=11388&tid=8394709
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This is one of the many jokes i found amongst the many joke categorys:
A man walks into his favorite bar and saw a bum panhandeling. The bum asked if the man could spare a dollar. The man replied "If I give you money are you going to use it to buy liquor?" The bum said he would not, so the man asked "If I give you money are you going to use it for gambling?" Again the bum said he would not, so the man asked "Would you come home with me so I can show my wife what happenes to someone who doesnt gamble or drink?"
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