out of the fish bowl and into a slightly bigger one!!

go fish boy

And cue fish formation display team:

<a href='http://www.plime.com/redir.p?http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=EpEqZ4E1Xos' class='plime' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'><b>flash video</b></a>

Congratulations

Congrats my fellow Brit!

Congrats fishy! :D

yay thankyou!

but I am still a little Remora swimming on the backs of bigger fishies

Yay for Dave!

DAVE...




(WTF? copy and paste por favor)

Congratulations DTF!

I hear it pretty comfy in that 20+ lounge.

w00t! Dave's swimming in the spa!

It all starts with 20 Fish

<a href='http://www.plime.com/redir.p?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fp9kzoAxsA4' class='plime' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'><b>flash video</b></a>

evolution of fish. each fish is a neural net.
The purpose of this application is to develop a "killer fish" - a fish that eats maximum pieces of food in a constant time period.

The world is populated by 20 fish and 40 pieces of food.

every time a generation begins. the food is scatted in a random distribution on a certain random location on the screen. (random piles of food).
When being eaten, the food shows up in a new random pile in the screen.

Every fish has a brain - Neural Net. It has 2 inputs:
the direction and velocity of the fish. (himself).
the relative location of the closest food.
and two outputs:
velocity of right wheel.
velocity of left wheel.
You can refer to the movement as a tank with two chains, and the output as the velocity of each chain.

the target is to find weights for the neural net that will give the fish a "killer-brain"...

When running the application you will see the generations go by. In each generation we select the best fish in generation and breed them to form new 20 fish.

the brains (Neural Nets) of the initial 20 fish are created randomly. This explains why they are so "stupid".

look how they improve as time goes by. their logic is being build by evolution, without interference.

Congrats!!!!!! I hope the water in the hot tub isn't too hot for your tastes.

In honor of your ascension into the Plime 20+ club, I have arranged a date for you with this lovely lady:


Enjoy!

oi! hes my fish, no trying to set him up with another fishy! :p for cod skate, i hake it when people try and do this...*ahem*

Heh, I knew I got you close. :-p

Congrats, man. :)

Congrats!!
Way to go!

Congratulations!

One ring fish to rule them all, one ring fish to find them, one ring fish to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them.

Fish fish you got your wish.

Well, I don't know if you really wished that persay, but it seemed to go with the theme here.

-or-

Damn, to think of all the times we've tried to flush this fish down. He just keeps swimming back.

Does this mean you expect a bigger tank?

Congrats!

A bigger tank and a couple of mermaids. Congrats to you DTF.

congrats!

Best fish I know.

I heard tell of mermaids?

To qoute Fry from Futurama: 'I wish they hade the fish part on top, and the lady bit at the bottom'

oh dear, i hear disturbing role play coming along with this line of thoughts...