Posted by Al on March 25, 2004 at 01:27:56:
In Reply to: Re: evolving evolution mechanisms posted by Phil M on March 19, 2004 at 03:32:59:
Apologies if I am posting trash here - I've just spent the night holding a friend's hand in casualty so I'm not firing on all cylinders yet, waiting for the coffee to kick in.
I found PerlGP the other day. Not quite sure I understand it yet but it looks like a project to evolve code. The applications appear to be mostly 'travelling salesman' type problems (i.e. where the fitness is less arbitrary but still hard to find). Interesting to take a glance at though and got me thinking about Perl's being quite tolerant of program variations. Might be something in it for somebody with a bigger brain than me and a bit more time on their hands.
Also been thinking about this project some more and have a few ideas as to how to ease the strain on the server/accelerate the development of the application/increase voting. Will post later on (but maybe not today).