I've long been into AI and programming, years ago i had a book about genetic algorithms - writing programs that evolved solutions based on trial and error, so programs that seem to learn.
I used the info to write a simple program that could eventually distinguish between male and female names with no set rules or prior knowledge about the input, just a person telling the program whether it was wrong or right each time it guessed the sex for a name typed into it,or inputted from a list.
Yes, i was a boring teenager ;+}
After the program had built up a database it performed well, it created it's own rules about what was male and what was female about a (Western) name.
Things like double-consonants were recognised as a high probability for a female name (haNNah, saLLy, but not wiLLiam).
So it was a fun thing to learn and do, a program that came up with rules and learnt from each example provided it.
I was thinking about prime numbers today and idly wondering if a GA program could be written to generate prime numbers, rather than calculate them, then i found this :
http://www.academicpub.org/jao/paperInfo.aspx?PaperID=14773
atb,
steely
I used the info to write a simple program that could eventually distinguish between male and female names with no set rules or prior knowledge about the input, just a person telling the program whether it was wrong or right each time it guessed the sex for a name typed into it,or inputted from a list.
Yes, i was a boring teenager ;+}
After the program had built up a database it performed well, it created it's own rules about what was male and what was female about a (Western) name.
Things like double-consonants were recognised as a high probability for a female name (haNNah, saLLy, but not wiLLiam).
So it was a fun thing to learn and do, a program that came up with rules and learnt from each example provided it.
I was thinking about prime numbers today and idly wondering if a GA program could be written to generate prime numbers, rather than calculate them, then i found this :
http://www.academicpub.org/jao/paperInfo.aspx?PaperID=14773
atb,
steely