Marks: We showed that in all cases, that yes, [design] was required, and that there’s mathematics behind it. The mathematics is based on the No Free Lunch Theorem, which was popularized in the IEEE transactions on evolutionary computing in 1997. There, David Wolpert and W. G. Macready showed something which astonished the area of genetic programming and evolutionary programming.
Tag: No Free Lunch theorem
At Forbes, Ethan Siegel explains that there IS such a thing as a free lunch
All the heat the others have taken for insisting otherwise can now, apparently, be airily waved away.
Can a big enough computer come up with a Theory of Everything? Eric Holloway says yer dreamin’…
Bottom line: The rigorously proven No Free Lunch theorem shows that physicists will always be needed to determine the correct questions. No computer will do all our thinking for us.