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khamelean t1_j6lup4s wrote

Simulating evolution has been one of the most basic algorithms in computer programming since the 1960s.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_programming

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_algorithm

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arth4 t1_j6n14bu wrote

From the article it's not simulating evolution at all. They trained it on lots of example protein sequences, and it produced a few new good ones. No EA/GP as far as I can see

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