alt Hacker NewsYes, someone did. It's actually an active field right now, from high-throughput simulations to try to limit the search space, to additive manufacturing of thousands of samples, to semi-automated characterisation and some testing (e.g. corrosion; for things like mechanics it's more difficult). The idea is te be more efficient than semi-random.
ok, so quasi-random. Would it be more useful to have such a machine to feed data back to models to better the simulations where we could do more in less time and prune down to more likely candidates?