Weasel Program 1.3
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This program is intended for educational purposes - to demonstrate that the process that drives evolutionary systems — random variation combined with non-random cumulative selection — is different from pure chance.
If you or any of you're friends can't seem to grasp how come we see complex life desigens all around us, without a designer (God for some).
This concept was first illustrated in the original Weasel Program by Richard Dawkins.
The basic algorithm is as follows:
1. Start with a random string.
2. Make 100 copies of this string, with a 5% chance per character of that character being replaced with a random character.
3. Compare each new string with the target string , and give each a score (the number of letters in the string that are correct and in the correct position).
4.0 If any of the new strings has a perfect score, halt.
4.1 Otherwise, take the highest scoring string, and go to step 2.
For more info on the topic visit the Wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weasel_program
I'd also recommend reading the book "The Blind Watchmaker" by Richard Dawkins.
p.s. there are some critics that insist that the method is cheating by locking the letters once they are correct, this is not true, you can check the whole code here - https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B2SWliTSzi6bOUx6T3hkVU10RVE&usp=sharing
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About Weasel Program
Weasel Program is a free app for Android published in the Teaching & Training Tools list of apps, part of Education.
The company that develops Weasel Program is altX. The latest version released by its developer is 1.3.
To install Weasel Program on your Android device, just click the green Continue To App button above to start the installation process. The app is listed on our website since 2014-03-28 and was downloaded 55 times. We have already checked if the download link is safe, however for your own protection we recommend that you scan the downloaded app with your antivirus. Your antivirus may detect the Weasel Program as malware as malware if the download link to play.altx.weasel is broken.
How to install Weasel Program on your Android device:
- Click on the Continue To App button on our website. This will redirect you to Google Play.
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- A pop-up window with the permissions required by Weasel Program will be shown. Click on Accept to continue the process.
- Weasel Program will be downloaded onto your device, displaying a progress. Once the download completes, the installation will start and you'll get a notification after the installation is finished.
