Comment by babuloseo

5 days ago

Do people not go on Wikipedia nowadays? This is literally on the frontpage of the wiki for this stuff: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_algorithm

A good rule of thumb: never mock someone’s enthusiasm or excitement about learning something, even if it’s old news to you. Let people enjoy discovering things.

  • I'm rediscovering it. I remember reading about this in some flashy, superlative Popular Science article, from the early/mid 2000s. So I was quite excited to click on the link and see that shape again.

    But also, something something lucky ten thousand.

    https://xkcd.com/1053/

I can't help myself, I always flip to the last page of a Wikipedia article to find out who did it.