Is there a canonical model or heuristic for the relative importance of mutation versus recombination contingent upon X where X is some small set of intuitive factors? I have a fuzzy argument forming, and maybe that would help me think about it.
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Context [hot take] Open source is an incredible driver mostly because of all the opportunities for recombination. But, unfortunately, a lot of the decentralization movements seem to be looking to make major leaps through the solution space rather than repurposing existing infra.
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It's still a really early premise but something something convergent evolution happens *something something* except mostly I got my eyes from some creature way up the tree back through time something something.
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Replying to @generativist @MaureenBug
As a cstheorist, I'm contractually obliged to be a downer. I think that the consensus among cstheorists (not GA folks) is that, in general, recombination tends to help only on easy problems (or problems specifically designed to be easy for recombination & hard for local search)
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On most practical hard problems, either there is a smart combinatorial optimization algorithm that exploits some hidden orded or almost nothing works (and in that case simple local searches tend to outperform recombination like systems).
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If you really want to turn to the cstheory of biological evolution then I can't really think past my most recent paper: https://twitter.com/kaznatcheev/status/1257285725957095424 … Where I have the following to say (see image) about recombination. Similar to my tweets above. But not sure if that's relevant to you.pic.twitter.com/bJj8g6GqqB
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Replying to @kaznatcheev @MaureenBug
Oh nice, thanks! I enjoyed one you wrote as a procrastination treat before my defense. Printing this out now.
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Replying to @generativist @MaureenBug
If you have any feedback, confusions, or impressions about the new manuscript, I'd appreciate it. My thinking here is still in its early stages, so plenty of room for improvements!
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Great, thanks! cc: @MrMeritology because the abstract seems like your jam.
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