“Evolution is probably the most powerful algorithm ... you can turn your exponential search problem into a linear search problem”

Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST) · What Most People Get Wrong About Evolution | Akarsh Kumar

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Argues that evolution is not random search but a powerful algorithm that can turn exponential combinatorial problems into linear ones

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