Remove real type

BCS none at anon.com
Sat Apr 24 11:03:40 PDT 2010


Hello Strtr,

> Walter Bright Wrote:
> 
>> You've got a bad algorithm if increasing the precision breaks it.
>> 
> No, I don't.
> 
> All algorithms using threshold functions which have been generated
> using evolutionary algorithms will break by changing the precision.
> That is, you will need to retrain them.
> 
> The point of most of these algorithms(eg. neural networks) is that you
> don't know what is happening in it.

If you don't know what the algorithms is doing then the types used are part 
of the algorithm.

OTOH, some would argue that Walter is still right by saying that if you don't 
know what is happening, then you've got a bad algorithm.

However you cut it, these cases are by far the minority. 

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