This is quite interesting. An algorithm that "evolves" to discover the best "car" (2D graphic representation) for the terrain that it's driving upon.
What is interesting about this is less the program than the idea that we can somehow create software that evolves with the tastes of the times and the user. Solutions that anticipate problems and "evolve" to overcome them. Programs that can evolve strategies to solve problems in mathematics and physics, like the Big Bang Theory or String Theory, or how to calculate prime numbers...
Link: http://www.boxcar2d.com/
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And a video that should raise a few questions about the mind-body connection. Don't worry, it's short.
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Usually March 14, one month after Valentines. In certain Asian countries Valentines Day is observed by the women, who buy men chocolates, the quality of the chocolate indicative of the mans relationship to her. March 14 is the day the favour is returned, with the gift from the man 2 to 3 times that of the woman's. Read more here. Which could be interpreted as proof that the price of love is high, or simply that they acknowledge that men (generally) make far more than women. Or in any number of other ways, stretch your imagination a bit...
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An unidentified body, unidentified means of death (suicide?, murder?), a scrap of cypher written on a piece of paper... Thus begins one of Australia's most enduring mysteries.
Read more here: Wiki on the Taman Shud
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