Comment by jcims

One of my favorite articles on the Internet.

I remember thinking this was a powerful confluence of genetic algorithms and reconfigurable computing, two pretty hot topics at the time, and was sure that real applications of this were on the horizon.

GA's seem to have been generally replaced by various facets of machine learning (although I'm hard pressed not to see GANs as Darwinian in nature) and the whole reconfigurable computing thing just seems to have dropped off the map. I sort of get the former but am curious if anyone on HN knows what happened to the latter.

Still love the article.