I introduced myself with the concept of Fisher information in my readings about quantum estimation and the Cramer-Rao bound. It was when I read the book
B. Roy Frieden, Physics from Fisher Information: A Unification,
which showed me that the Fisher information may even play an important role in the foundations of physics itself. Unexpectedly, I run into the Fisher information again when I was reading about Jeffreys' prior for Bayesian estimation. Now, I came across with another interesting paper about the role of Fisher information in Natural selection
Frank, S. A. 2009. Natural selection maximizes Fisher
information. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22:231–244
Can we use this in order to refine genetic/evolutionary optimization algorithms?
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