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Natural evolution strategy

Okay kiddo, do you remember when we talked about how animals and plants change over time? That's called evolution. Now, there's something called natural evolution strategy that scientists use to help computers learn and improve.

It's like playing a game with a computer where you give it a task to complete, like finding the shortest route home. The computer tries different ways to get home and then comes back to you and tells you how long each way took.

But instead of just randomly trying different routes, the natural evolution strategy is more like looking at all the different ways and picking the ones that worked best. Think of it like choosing the best ingredients for a recipe instead of just throwing in whatever you have in the kitchen.

Scientists use this natural evolution strategy on a computer program to find the best solution to a problem or to make the program learn and improve faster. It's like training a puppy to do tricks, but for computers!

So, in summary, the natural evolution strategy is a way of training a computer program to learn and improve by picking the best solutions to a problem, just like picking the best ingredients for a recipe. Cool, huh?
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