Hi, I wanted to show you guys something interesting I found.
http://drp.rubyforge.org/ It's a variant of a quite recent page on an interesting biologically inspired technique called grammatical evolution. It's inspired by genetics and doesn't require a lot of math like most optimization algorithms do. Nearly all evolutionary computation work is done in C++ or Java, partly because speed is important and partly because people who work on evolutionary computation apparently have no taste. There are slides from a presentation on it here: http://rosl.iandb.net/presentations/drp/ which introduces ideas behind it. As far as I can tell he's basically on the bleeding edge of evolutionary computation. Apparently the online game Second Life has its own Ruby user group? I've been working on evolutionary computation in Objective Caml rather than Ruby, but I could talk about this stuff in the context of Ruby if there's interest since apparently we've been a little short on talks; I've been using it for face recognition and financial modelling rather than the design stuff the creator of DRP is working on. Warren _______________________________________________ Sdruby mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sdruby.com/mailman/listinfo/sdruby
