Busy day again?

Today I spent half the day at Boeing's lab in their Anaheim location trying to solve their Gigabit Fiber Optic issue. I don't want to bore everyone with all the details... I went in, tried a few things, tried some other things, chatted with their engineers, joked a bit, went back to the office at 6:20pm (they were working overtime too) with the case solved.

So I guess this is a good busy day. Since I get to actually relax a little bit while trying to solve problems.

I wanted to bring out an interesting conversation that I had with one of their head engineers. Apparently, this typical American engineer (typical, meaning - size, shape, and height... you guessed it... similar to Homer Simpson) is a guru at computers in both hardware and software. So his job naturally involve a lot of computers and he doesn't even use the computer when he gets home since it reminds him of work.

So what does he do as a hobby? Well, he lately has been reading something about genetic programming: it's a set of algorithms that follow the priniples of evolution to determine which programs or strings of code are fit to survive and therefore evolve.

Another engineer said that it might be the real beginning of A.I. (Artificial Intelligence). Or... is it? I was thinking... well, what type of rules or algorithms can determine which or what is fit? There has to be some rules on making the selection of who is fit to survive, right?

Just as I was thinking about that, these engineer also realized the same issue... brought it up, and the conversation ended up shifting to a different topic... knowing that this is not going to be resolved.

So I was thinking... it would be really interesting if this is ever realized. Beacause this will be so anti-evolution if this is found out.... here's what I mean: imagine a Mercedes parked at the beach. Now, no one in their right mind would think that such a fine piece of engineering masterpiece and speed beast formed itself in perfect balance and precision and then, parked itself at the beach, right? If someone says that this beauty was a product of randomness and the parts formed through natural selection became the car that is today. We'd think that this guy is out of his mind!

Now, apply the same principle and think about the human body...

You decide which one makes more sense.