Adaptation in Natural and Artificial SystemsJohn H. Holland
Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems
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Adaptation == Learning This was at the early stages of a lot of agent based modeling, genetic algorithms, etc., etc. And John Holland wrote a book called Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems[1]. The universality of the idea that "simple" adaptation is learning applied to a lot of different domains was crisp and very powerful. 1. (https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/adaptation-natural-and-artifi...)
on “Ask HN: Name one idea that changed your life” ↗https://faculty.cc.gatech.edu/~turk/bio_sim/articles/genetic... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holland%27s_schema_theorem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Henry_Holland Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems (1975, MIT Press)
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