"DavidM" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> So if someone can point me in the direction of an algebraic expressions > library that can simplify expression trees and weed out redundancies, that > would be awesome. half-joking: Maxima http://maxima.sourceforge.net/ --- ala os.popen('maxima .... ') ... ^_^ The problem with genetic algorithm's, as I understand Stuar Kaufmann, is that while "weeding out redundancies" the fitness space becomes more spiky and therefore harder to search. The "optimal" solution decays into simple random guessing in in infinite search space. So, sloppiness and waste is Good - it helps by creating an area of the fitness space where the "creature" can "move" i.e. adopt/evolve. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
