Philipp,
What's the current status of the Memecodes Evolutionary Page Experiment? How many pages have spawned offspring, what are the most popular queries? Did you think about implementing a stats page (or actually did implement one)?
I didn't know about this project until you posted the url in the seraphim proudleduck thread. I think it's a great idea, and I'll publish a short article on the project at www.aiplayground.org in the next days. Do you have any other online experiments I might not know about?
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Thanks for the idea for a Memecodes statistic. I add one to the front-page now.
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I don't think I have more experiments of this sort exactly. Though of course there's a lot of fun stuff to be found in the Archive
blogoscoped.com/calendar/
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It's interesting to see the experiment in work:
memecodes.outer-court.com/6574 ...
"My name: #6574 – My birthday: 2004-11-17 20:50:22
My parents: site%3Amemecodes.outer-court.com + #648"
That's what happens when you (for some other reason) activate referrers for five minutes.
How did you create the initial pages? Doesn't look like random words from a dictionary, did you use the Google API?
Has the total number of pages decreased or increased? How many pages are still "alive"?
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I created the initial words by using a small dictionary (27,000 words), randomization, and several methods which I thought would make it look more like natural language.
For example I have a set of punctuation characters (! : ; and so on) as well as a set of common "glue words" (the, of, and, to, a, in, for, ...). I also add words from a set of well-known brands (Apple, Coca-Cola, Google.com, Ikea, Nike, ...) and celebrities (Edward Norton, Edward Platt, Edward Rigby, Edward S Brophy, ...).
As for "dying" pages, my idea was to let pages die naturally because they are pushed to the end of the page, and then out of the page. I display 2150 Memecodes "citizens" at any time on the front-page. Also, the page is around 150 K, and Google only indexes around 100 K, so I suspect it will slowly start to ignore older Memecodes.
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