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the_real_r2d2 on Oct 28, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Announcement: YC alumni will help us read applicat...

Adding some randomness could help to avoid over-fitted populations. Then you could prevent to converge to a sub-optimal state and force the system to look beyond of what it seems the best.

bravura on Oct 28, 2009 [–]

I thought mating was the main cause of genetic diversity, not mutation.

a-priori on Oct 29, 2009 | [–]

Mutation introduces new alleles, and mating recombines existing alleles. Both processes increase diversity.

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