Warren Henning wrote:
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.
During the time I discovered Ruby, I was working at a startup doing
combinatorics using Python. The soft language gave us amazing
velocity. The point of combinatorics is not to go fast, it is to
demonstrate algorithms that have better performance profiles than the
competition. Only after you have a good algorithm do you optimize. We
had a very good one, and we were going to optimize simply by
reimplementing it in silicon.
Don't ask what happened to that project. Thanks for the link, I been
looking for one of these!
--
Phlip
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ZeekLand <-- NOT a blog!!
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