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robvirentoday at 6:06 PM2 repliesview on HN

Reminds me of good ol genetic algorithm search. Guess and check can be quite powerful, especially if you can toss in agent in the loop guidance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolved_antenna


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ben_wtoday at 6:20 PM

Was going to say much the same. I recall one story about a genetic algorithm to make an oscillator with the fewest possible components, and it successfully did so by surprising the humans with a single wire, i.e. an antenna picking up nearby stray RF.

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