I'm reading a book called "Probably Approximately Correct" by Leslie Valiant, actually I'm on page 48 now and haven't got a tangle sense of what exactly the author means by the term "ecorithm" so, does anybody have an idea about what exactly "ecorithm" is all about?
I didn't even start to read, so haven't got to page 48... While I like the title of the book, the term ecorithm sounds too holistic to my taste. Something diurnal maybe?
"“ecorithms,” a term he has coined for algorithms that interact with and benefit from their environment. "
See: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/01/science/probably-approximately-correct-explores-natures-algorithms.html?_r=0
Ecorithm
www.crunchbase.com/organization/ecorithm
Ecorithm develops algorithms and proprietary software to diagnose and optimize energy wastage in buildings and complexes.
Corporate name. I haven't read it, but I assume the book is at least in part advertisement.
You think of an algorithm as something running on your computer, but it could just as easily run on a biological organism. But in either case an ecorithm lives in an external world and interacts with that world. An ecorithm is an algorithm, but its performance is evaluated against input it gets from a rather uncontrolled and unpredictable world. And its goal is to perform well in that same complicated world. http://www.wired.com/2016/02/the-hunt-for-the-algorithms-that-drive-life-on-earth/?mbid=social_fb
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