TagEvolution
Can We “Evolve” Self-Driving Cars?
The new method may be an advance but thinking of it as "evolution" at work risks misconceptionsIn evolution, “performance” just means the continued survival of a lineage. Thus it can include hybrids between what you might want for your purposes and what you don’t want.
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Why Some Scientists Think Science Is an Illusion
It’s a useful illusion, they say, but our brains are not really wired to know the facts
Those Puppy Dog Eyes Are No Accident
The babyface dog is, according to a study of animal shelters, more likely to be adoptedOver thirty-three millennia of selective breeding shaped “a scant, irregular cluster of fibres” found around wolves’ eyes into eyebrows that communicate—to humans—a look-after-me doggy expression.
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