Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems

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1. floathubMay 2020
   Adaptation == Learning

   This was at the early stages of a lot of agent based modeling, genetic algorithms, etc., etc. And John Holland wrote a book called Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems[1]. The universality of the idea that "simple" adaptation is learning applied to a lot of different domains was crisp and very powerful.

   1. (https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/adaptation-natural-and-artifi...)

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2. rolphJun 2026
   https://faculty.cc.gatech.edu/~turk/bio_sim/articles/genetic...

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holland%27s_schema_theorem

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

   Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems (1975, MIT Press)

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