[Kory] has been experimenting with genetic algorithms. Normally we’d expect his experiments to deal with tuning the variables in a control system or something, but he’s doing something much cooler.

Management Science, Vol. 37, No. 8 (Aug., 1991), pp. 909-925 (17 pages) This paper is concerned with the general dynamic lot size model, or (generalized) Wagner-Whitin model. Let n denote the number ...

What does it take to turn a lizard into a snake? Turns out you don't need a wand and a lesson at Hogwarts, just a tiny genetic tweak. By making a simple switch more than 100 million years ago, ancient ...