the advantages of living in a medium-sized city
Mood: determined
Music: Foo Fighters - "Let It Die"
Posted on 2009-03-06 14:15:00
Tags: car projects
Words: 92

2.5 years ago: My car's check engine light turns on, I have to drive 40 miles early Saturday morning to get it checked out.

Today: My car's check engine light turns on, I drive 3 miles to drop it off during the middle of the day. (and hitch a ride back with destroyerj) Life is good!


My next project: This guy genetic algorithmed his way to a Mona Lisa with translucent polygons, and then this guy did something similar. I like images and especially genetic algorithms. Hopefully will have pretty results soon!

7 comments

Comment from omega697:
2009-03-06T16:48:54+00:00
I am usually not very impressed by "genetic algorithms" where someone basically has the solution already and just wants to watch something get there. Show me something where you give it a much less explicit fitness function, have it create a worthwhile piece of art, and then we can talk.

Comment from blamantin:
2009-03-06T20:19:02+00:00
So what did they decide made your car's light go on?

Comment from gregstoll:
2009-03-06T21:16:49+00:00
It needed a software upgrade, believe it or not.

Comment from abstractseaweed:
2009-03-07T12:09:51+00:00
I don't know how I didn't know this before (I'll just say I forgot) but I recently learned that Austin is in the top 20 US cities by population. I always think of Austin as small because in my mind I'm comparing to Houston or San Antonio, but it's actually quite populous.

Comment from djedi:
2009-03-09T10:40:40+00:00
And the capital...something someone on Jeopardy missed. "San Antonio"?... come on!

Comment from kernelm:
2009-03-09T11:30:03+00:00
Yeah, it's 16th or so last I checked. Though, if you start looking at metropolitan areas, it goes down farther quite a bit because of a lot of cities that have huge suburban populations.

Comment from pingback_bot:
2009-03-09T11:30:39+00:00
User gregstoll referenced to your post from adieu genetic Mona Lisa saying: [...] That project I was working on? Yeah, not so much. After running it overnight, here's what I got: Um, so it seems to have figured out the image is mostly pink. Hooray? Things I did learn: - I originally tried crossoverfor breeding ... [...]

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