There are two things I currently not like about Ubuntu or Linux in general: the whole sound mess, and the whole graphics mess (but both are getting better). This problem is about the first mess.

Skype was working perfectly in Interprid, now in Jaunty it was telling me that there …

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So, you’ve just gotten yourself two .iso’s for Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (your backups, of course), which you want to play in Wine. What do you do?

That’s easy, you say:

sudo mkdir /media/isoimag
sudo mount -o loop ./cd1.iso /media/isoimage

And start the …

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(This is the final part in the Modern Genetic Algorithms Explained series, click here to go to the first post, or browse through all the parts with the Table Of Contents at the end of this post.)

In the past series, we have looked at genetic algorithms, simulated annealing, ant …

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(This is part 6 in the Modern Genetic Algorithms Explained series, click here to go to the first post, or browse through all the parts with the Table Of Contents at the end of this post.)

Tabu search is not really “modern” anymore, but still widely used nonetheless.

The pseudocode …

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(This is part 5 in the Modern Genetic Algorithms Explained series, click here to go to the first post, or browse through all the parts with the Table Of Contents at the end of this post.)

First, let’s go to Wikipedia for a definition:

The ant colony optimization algorithm …

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(This is part 4 in the Modern Genetic Algorithms Explained series, click here to go to the first post, or browse through all the parts with the Table Of Contents at the end of this post.)

First of all: Simulated Annealing is not a genetic algorithm, but it is a …

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The following steps are instructions to surf the web using a Nokia N95 with 3G, connected to your Intrepid laptop via Bluetooth.

1. Make sure you have the required packages installed:

sudo apt-get install bluez-utils bluez-pin ppp

2. Find out the phone’s MAC address. Enable Bluetooth on phone and …

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(This is part 3 in the Modern Genetic Algorithms Explained series, click here to go to the first post, or browse through all the parts with the Table Of Contents at the end of this post.)

In this part, we will look at a “special” genetic algorithm, CHC by Eshelman …

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(This is part 2 in the Modern Genetic Algorithms Explained series, click here to go to the first post, or browse through all the parts with the Table Of Contents at the end of this post.)

Let’s take another look at the blog post on which we will base …

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A few days ago I saw this on reddit, linking to a well-written article about genetic algorithms (GA):

Genetic algorithms are a mysterious sounding technique in mysterious sounding field—artificial intelligence. This is the problem with naming things appropriately. When the field was labeled artificial intelligence, it meant using mathematics …

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