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Ethiopian Multiplication jumps to be the most popular page behind the Main Page, and I can find no evidence of a 'buzz' around it. No blog entries, no group discussions. I would have expected something more? --[[User:Paddy3118|Paddy3118]] 06:55, 1 September 2009 (UTC)
: It's all coming through StumbleUpon. I'd like to write a blog post on exactly what I think happened, but it's going to take a while, and I need to look into it more. A simplified explanation would be that a SU user discovered the page, liked it or reviewed it, leading to both his subscribers (and their subscribers) to see it, as well as increasing the page's general ranking in SU's page selection algorithm. This would be made easier to show if I could identify a trend around the phrase "ethiopian multiplication" in blogs and searches over the last month. The functionality is there in Google's advanced search, but it requires time and opportunity. --[[User:Short Circuit|Short Circuit]] 14:33, 1 September 2009 (UTC)
==Evolutionary algorithm==
I've had ''the dreaded Flu'' the past week, and am still getting over it. To test my faculties I took a look at what tasks were requested and took on [[wp:Weasel_program#Weasel_algorithm|Weasel algorithm]].
I wasn't quite happy with the results, and wrote that up in a [http://paddy3118.blogspot.com/2009/10/otter-algorithm.html blog entry]. One of the commenters there, (thanks Steve), used the phrase 'evolutionary algorithm', which turned out to fit a [[wp:Evolutionary algorithm|WP page]], that re-introduced me to all the proper nomenclature. I decided that a re-write using the proper terms, would then make a better RC task.
I tried to word the RC task so that people could experiment and slot in different algorithms for things like the fitness and mutation functions and I'm pleased to see that already the C language solution has done just that. (I do like the way the C is coded too; very nice).
After the coding, what gets me is the amount of controversy that was caused by such programs, especially the original quoted in a [[wp:The_Blind_Watchmaker|book]] by Richard Dawkins (that I have not read). It seems so little to be controversial about, but then I guess RD's delivery might inflame some.
--[[User:Paddy3118|Paddy3118]] 04:28, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
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