Remove real type

strtr strtr at spam.com
Sat Apr 24 14:35:00 PDT 2010


BCS Wrote:

> 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.
I'm not sure on when to define a type as the algorithm.

1 ? 3 = .33
Is the type now 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.
Yes, all algorithms created by genetic programming are bad ;)
And your brain is one big bad algorithm as well of course..

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




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