[vorbis] New decode chip

[Ed Sweetman]

heh, this is literally years old.  I remember reading this before i
started highschool in Discover magazine.  I still have the original
actually and have a picture of the nifty device from way back when. 

http://signal-lost.homeip.net/images/fpga_large.jpg
http://signal-lost.homeip.net/images/fpga_small.jpg

<p>It was pretty interesting and later work on the design resulted in a
further understanding about just how much we dont know about physics and
how "life" can exploit it. 

More constrictive experiments with evolution done by a group of japanese
scientists would have more use with consumer technology because it
forced the designs to work by accepted digital logic and not exploit the
finer quantum qualities of reality that we dont understand yet.  :) I
forget which journal i read this stuff in though.  I do know that even
that was a couple years old and probably quite outdated by present
research.  

On Mon, 2002-08-05 at 18:53, Nemo - earth native wrote:
> 
> I've seen a few articles on this... 
> 
> [a] the required task was stunningly simple - stuff like distinguishing
> between two input frequencies
> 
> [b] it took a while to "grow" the design
> 
> [c] the design was found to work for the specific hardware FPGA they
> used. ie, transfer the solution to another FPGA, even of the same
> make/model/etc, and it didn't work. 
> 
> Here is the guys webaddress:
> http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/users/adrianth/ade.html
> 
> Here is the slashdot article - it probably has lots of crap comments,
> and some links to other usefull sites about this
> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/12/29/007258&mode=nested
> 
> .../Nemo
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