Irrational Exuberance

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Genetic Algorithms are one of the most natural approaches to optimization. Did you learn about evolution in grade school? Then you already "get" GA.

You are responding to this comment written by Jay on January 3rd 2009, 11:29.

This is a great walkthrough! I've done some GA programming but mostly in C and python (including your great examples of list compressions and reduce()) seems to make it so much easier!

I might suggest abstracting out some of the bulk of the evolve() function just for readability. Maybe making "mutate()", "crossover()", etc...

Still very helpful and I'd love to see an example of genetic programming with python too!

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