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From: davis@ilog.fr (Harley Davis)
Subject: Re: A question..
In-Reply-To: sfauteck@bu.edu's message of 15 Nov 1994 23:49:14 GMT
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Date: 16 Nov 1994 09:27:38 GMT


In article <3abhdq$kht@news.bu.edu> sfauteck@bu.edu (Samuel Fauteck) writes:

   I guess I'm just wondering why the people on the group who have the
   ability to implement genetic programming (or some of them) choose
   to spend their free-time developing "games" and such... I realize
   that game-theory, etc. is an area of research, just as valid as any
   other, but the emphasis seems to be (although I could be very
   wrong) on entertainment.  There are so many cool problems that GP
   can probably be used to solve.. "academic" pursuits are so much
   more satisfying (to me at least).  Please don't flame me
   unnecessarily, because my intent is not to judge anybody.  I'm just
   trying to understand where people are coming from...

I wrote my genetic programming project Imogene in my spare time at
home.  I work on hard and fairly abstract stuff at work.  If I'm going
to program at home, I want to work on fun stuff that produces pretty
or amusing output.

-- Harley Davis
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