Music By Natural Selection 164
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samzenpus
from the survival-of-the-grooviest dept.
from the survival-of-the-grooviest dept.
maccallr writes "The DarwinTunes experiment needs you! Using an evolutionary algorithm and the ears of you the general public, we've been evolving a four bar loop that started out as pretty dismal primordial auditory soup and now after >27k ratings and 200 generations is sounding pretty good. Given that the only ingredients are sine waves, we're impressed. We got some coverage in the New Scientist CultureLab blog but now things have gone quiet and we'd really appreciate some Slashdotter idle time. We recently upped the maximum 'genome size' and we think that the music is already benefiting from the change."
Sine waves (Score:5, Funny)
"Given that the only ingredients are sine waves, we're impressed."
This is different from all other sounds, including regular music, how?
Re:Sine waves (Score:5, Funny)
Already slashdotted ? (Score:3, Funny)
No reply yet and the website can't even load.. now I understand why we don't RTFA!
Isn't this the opposite of evolution? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Sine waves? (Score:3, Funny)
It's doable, you just need to use sine waves that are wearing cowboy hats.
Re:Already slashdotted ? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:WARNING: AntivirusXP (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Sine waves (Score:5, Funny)
Because they have cosine waves too :-)
Sounds shifty to me
Careful what you ask for! (Score:3, Funny)
Your wish is our Slashdotting! That's a name-brand CPU cooling solution you're running, right? Gooood.
Re:Sine waves (Score:3, Funny)
More importantly, they are not asinine ...
Re:Sine waves? (Score:4, Funny)
That would be...
*sunglasses*...
cowsine
YEEAAAAAAAHH!
Re:Sine waves (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Already slashdotted ? (Score:5, Funny)
Update: The icon has loaded.
Re:Isn't this the opposite of evolution? (Score:3, Funny)
Polytheism in a nutshell!
Re:Sine waves? (Score:3, Funny)
Warning: if you follow the parent's link you will be Ricker Rolled.
Re:Sine waves (Score:2, Funny)
Dude, that was an offbeat comment.
Re:Sine waves (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Sine waves (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Sine waves (Score:1, Funny)
You're going off at a tangent.