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Evolved Virtual Creatures (1994)
karlsims · 0 HN recommenders · 0 recommendation months
Recommended by 0 Hacker News commenters across 0 months (2024–2025).
SignalTube analysis
Among 18 other demo videos tagged Machine learning & deep learning, the mean is 2.2 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 0 distinct HN recommenders, below that mean. Recommendations span 0 distinct months; the peer average is 2.4 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
0% of its 3 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2024–2025; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. Its verified runtime is 4 minutes 9 seconds. YouTube lists its publication date as 2019-12-16.
- Channel / speaker
- karlsims
- Verified runtime
- 4m 9s
- YouTube upload date
- 2019-12-16
- Hacker News mention years
- 2024–2025
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Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other demo videos in Machine learning & deep learning. “Shared recommenders” counts HN users who recommended both videos in the source graph.
| Video | HN recommenders | Recommendation months | Positive label share | Shared recommenders | Runtime | Upload date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Evolved Virtual Creatures (1994)Current video | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | 4m 9s | 2019-12-16 |
| MarI/O - Machine Learning for Video Gamesdemo · SethBling | 10 | 10 | 50% | No recorded overlap | 5m 58s | 2015-06-13 |
| Computer program that learns to play classic NES gamesdemo · suckerpinch | 9 | 10 | 53% | No recorded overlap | 16m 18s | 2013-04-02 |
| Playing a Neural Network's version of GTA V: GAN Theft Autodemo · sentdex | 3 | 4 | 33% | No recorded overlap | 17m 8s | 2021-06-18 |
THREE SOURCE-BASED CONTEXT POINTS
Why Hacker News recommends it
Each note combines the dataset’s stance label and short rationale; comment bodies are not reproduced. Open the HN source for the original discussion.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Everything is Ghibli”. Its short rationale: Karl Sims' genetic algorithm locomotion work in physics simulation.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “AIs Will Increasingly Fake Alignment”. Its short rationale: Sims' creatures exploiting physics bugs illustrates metric gaming.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “A simple procedural animation technique [video]”. Its short rationale: Karl Sims' classic evolved virtual creatures work.