Genetic Cars 2 Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• Progress Quest: the original idle game

  Maybe similar in spirit as idle games: I used to enjoy BoxCar2D where you just sit back and watch cars evolve using genetic algorithm. The original version[1] requires Flash, but looks like someone ported it to HTML5[2]: [1] http://boxcar2d.com/ [2] https://rednuht.org/genetic_cars_2/. - Source: Hacker News / 5 days ago

• Religious beliefs in creationism/Intelligent design and not evolution can harm a society because they don’t accept science

  Watch this for a while, it randomly generates a bunch of triangles and circles, the ones that make it furthest to the right have their code passed onto the next generation with random mutations. In almost no time you'll have a bunch of cars that are evolved specifically for the niche of that track. No guidance needed. Source: 5 months ago

• As an Atheist how do you refute the claim of Intelligent design?

  You can actually produce a better analogy with a genetic algorithm. In the linked example, you can watch the evolution of simulated cars. Just take note that while the simulation is a good illustration of evolution, it's also, by necessity, vastly simplified. (I guess running for about 4 billion years would incur off-putting cloud costs.). Source: 5 months ago

• Self-learning of the robot in 1 hour

  This really doesn't require a nural net. You can run similar learning algorithms in your browser. Source: 11 months ago

• AI Learns to Walk (deep reinforcement learning)

  I learned about genetic algorithms: https://rednuht.org/genetic_cars_2/. Source: about 1 year ago

• How would you teach genetic algorithms to CS students ?

  The idea is to introduce GAs visually first, and so I am hoping to rely on something entertaining (but somewhat abstracted away from them) for the GA itself. Something like this genetic cars algorithm comes to mind. Source: about 1 year ago

• Does the evolutıon theory entail that species can arise only through evolution?

  Simulated cars are clearly not alive. But you can watch them evolve right in your browser. Source: about 1 year ago

• CHALLENGE: What would an alien say?

  You can literally watch it happen, right now on your computer, by just going to the following website: https://rednuht.org/genetic_cars_2/. Source: about 1 year ago

• 'Mind control' by parasites influences wolf-pack dynamics in Yellowstone National Park | CNN

  It might help to watch the process here. Source: over 1 year ago

• Evolving a rigid body to throw another one the farthest with UI

  I love this kind of stuff. Reminds me of genetic cars. Source: over 1 year ago

• Genetic Car Designer - Play with an evolutionary algorithm to design a car to travel as far as possible!

  The original html 5 game, from 9 years or so ago: https://rednuht.org/genetic_cars_2/. Source: over 1 year ago

• Could robots become conscious bc of evolution?

  So, for evolution to take place among machines, design and manufacturing of machine needs to be completely different from what they are now. For example, if we provide machine an instructions and ability to produce more machines based on itself (or, better yet, based on itself and other machines), evolution may take place. In effect, we would have created a new kind of life. Needless to say, there is no way we can... Source: almost 2 years ago

• How Evolution Works

  This is the principle behind "genetic algorithms", which are a fairly simple form of machine learning. Instead of becoming an expert in some field so that one can engineer a very precise solution to some problem, the idea goes, we want to leverage computers' ability to programmatically generate millions of minute variations on some basic design, and then test which ones are most efficient. Every generation we... Source: about 2 years ago

• Is there a website where I can give properties to dots, choose amount and let it evolve?

  This is a great genetic algorithm car simulator - the track (like nature) can be made random and you can tweak some of the mutation rates and such. It's a lot of fun! Source: about 2 years ago

• Maybe Maybe Maybe

  Here's one that runs in the browser. Instead of movements of a character or pendulum, the algorithm tries different combinations of geometry, wheel size, torque, and speed to find a car that can progress along a track. Https://rednuht.org/genetic_cars_2/. Source: over 2 years ago

• Show HN: Evolution Simulator

  Https://rednuht.org/genetic_cars_2/ does something like this. You can turn off visualizations and let it run for a while then turn visualizations back on or replay the best result. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• An Argument For Evolution Rather Than Creationism

  As an initial primer to help students get their heads around the sheer creative power of random mutation when combined with some kind of selection I usually show my students https://rednuht.org/genetic_cars_2/. Source: over 2 years ago

• Anyone have any interesting natural selection examples?

  Generic algorithms This one finds a car that drives far. Fitness is the distance traveled, chromosome is shapes and wheels, and there is crossover and mutation. Not natural selection, but a good way to understand the process. Source: over 2 years ago

• I made a web app that learns to build vehicles using AI (genetic algorithms)

  So basically this: https://rednuht.org/genetic_cars_2/. Source: over 2 years ago

• The Theory of Evolution is Incomplete

  If you want to watch the process you can simulate the evolution of a perfectly adapted car yourself. Source: almost 3 years ago

• A Game where you play an Level Designer.

  One approach is players designing terrain for boxcar 2d - original needs flash, so here's a js version. The existing version evolves "cars" to run over random terrain, that gets rougher as you go. Source: almost 3 years ago