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Letter: Trial and error

Published 1 June 2011

From Ken Green

You describe the use of

computers that use evolution-like methods to create designs whose success cannot be fully understood, as part of “The next wave” (14 May, p 30).

Surely all that is being achieved is a tireless and very high-speed use of that usually derided technique, suck-it-and-see.

Tintagel, Cornwall, UK

Issue no. 2815 published 4 June 2011

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