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What (who) is methinks - definition

THOUGHT EXPERIMENT IN EVOLUTIONARY SCIENCE
Methinks it is a weasel; Dawkins Weasel; Methinks it is like a weasel
  •  A full run of a weasel program, with 100 offspring per generation, and a 5% mutation chance per character copied. Only the "fittest" string of each generation is shown. Note that, in generation 8, the 25th character, which had been correct (<code>A</code>), becomes incorrect (<code>I</code>). The program does not "lock" correct characters, rather it measures at each iteration the closeness of the complete string to the 'target' phrase.
  • The software's name takes itself from dialogue in ''Hamlet'':<br>''Hamlet:'' Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel?<br>''Polonius:'' By the mass, and 'tis like a camel, indeed.<br>''Hamlet:'' Methinks it is like a [[weasel]].

methinks      
¦ verb (past methought) archaic or humorous it seems to me.
Origin
OE me thyncth, from me 'to me' + thyncth 'it seems' (from thyncan 'seem', related to think).
Methinks      
(·vimp) It seems to me; I think. ·see Me.
methinks      
I think.
It's raining outside. Methinks I'm going to get my coat.

Wikipedia

Weasel program

The weasel program or Dawkins' weasel is a thought experiment and a variety of computer simulations illustrating it. Their aim is to demonstrate that the process that drives evolutionary systems—random variation combined with non-random cumulative selection—is different from pure chance.

The thought experiment was formulated by Richard Dawkins, and the first simulation written by him; various other implementations of the program have been written by others.

Examples of use of methinks
1. Methinks it would be most revealing and also extremely contradictory.
2. Good way to ease himself in before lunch methinks.
3. "The senator doth protest too much, methinks," Sullivan said.
4. Miss Goody...". Sign of what constitutes a celebrity now, methinks.
5. The caption said: "Training for long–haul flights." A heavy–handed hint, methinks.