User:Ilya/Notes/Digital evolution
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- Experimental Evolution with Digital Organisms, Dr. Charles Ofria
- Core War: self-replication
- Tierra: mutation -> evolution
- Ancestor program (80 lines of code) was optimized to 65 lines of code and then a 45 line parasite appeared that used other programs' copy loop
- Avida: research platform
- Adaptation: energy/resources in form of CPU cycles
- Performing math operations correctly provides resources
- Fitness function: how well can the organism replicate
- breve is a free, open-source software package which makes it easy to build 3D simulations of multi-agent systems and artificial life
