Apparently, I'd been living under a rock for the past five years, but I didn't even realize there were kids out there making hardware using GAs. I went to Korea House last night with this one last night and he set me straight. It's kind of neat to think that you can make a cluster of computers produce a chip by evolving hardware to meet some conditions. While I think that doing an FPU this way would be effectively impossible using conventional hardware, what if quantum computers were used? I... read more
