11.22.08
self-interest
given the choice between a safe, comfortable and long life for the individual or a risky, tiring and dangerous attempt to breed, virtually all animals choose the latter. They choose to shorten their odds of death in order to have offspring. Indeed, their bodies are designed with planned obsolescence called aging that causes them to decay afte they reach breeding age
Genome – Matt Ridley
11.09.08
See5 and C5.0
This is a decent data mining tool. Before I dump it from my bookmark, I’d like to take a note on it.
This is a classifier. It expresses with decision tree or rule sets.
It is not free so I quit using it. I did try it when I was working on my dissertation around 2003 or 2004.
Current version 2.05. Web site http://www.rulequest.com/see5-info.html
