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Shvartz, can you help me out?

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Botsareus:

--- Quote ---My advice is not to let it go beyond recognition - save some intermediate bots and align those to each other.
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I cant beleave Shvartz actualy sayed this. This goes agenst the consept of evolution that he himself designed. That the program should naturaly evolve bots without any help from the user.


Shvartz, Is that firstbot getting too much junk dna so you decided to interfere?


 BTW: What is going on in general , are you still going at it?

shvarz:

--- Quote ---This goes agenst the consept of evolution that he himself designed.
--- End quote ---

You probably did not understand me.  What I mean is to let evolution go its way, but save the evolved DNA often somewhere.  Then later you can trace how mutation happened and what gene evolved from what gene.  If you just try to compare the starting bot to the one that's there 20 million cycles later, then they are going to be so different that it will be very hard to sort things out.

Yes, I am still going - there is tons of junk DNA, I think around 4/5 of all DNA is junk, but then I have not tried to figure out what that DNA is doing (maybe it's not junk).  I am at 2.6 million cycles.  But recently not a lot of progress has been going on, mostly because I relaxed conditions too much and there was no selection - run and shoot and you'll survive.  I am tightening the belt now...

PurpleYouko:
Have any of them learned to change direction yet?

shvarz:
Nope, in fact they recently lost the ability to turn that they developed before that.  I'm at size 5 now with friction at maximum and with moving factor at .55 - but they still can cross the screen fairly quickly, which means that they don't have to turn to get to food - they'll stumble upon it anyway when they go through that spot again. Argh, this irritates me!

The good news is that they have accumulated huge amounts of DNA and a lot of it is still active - average genome is 360 comands organized in 9 genes.  Last 7 genes are constantly executed.

PurpleYouko:
What is your veggie cap?

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