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February 4, 2006
Software That Learns on the Job
TRN Research News reports that researchers at Princeton University have developed two "self-improving" algorithms, a sorting algorithm (which sorts data into a logical order) and a clustering algorithm (which groups similar items together).
Posted by Robert at February 4, 2006 7:43 PM
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Artificial Invention
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