Dan Sommers wrote: > Peter Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>This problem is well suited to the abilities of genetic algorithms, >>and this would probably be an excellent way to learn more about them, >>even if you don't get the best solution. > > There's some sort of irony or something in there about not writing the > best genetic algorithm, but I can't quite put my finger on it.
Maybe your irony sensor is getting muddled over the fact that genetic algorithms generally *don't* find the best solutions, just relatively good ones. They aren't an exhaustive search, they're basically a random search with some features thought to focus the search on more fruitful parts of the solution space, thus optimizing it. Unless *my* irony processors are malfunctioning, I don't think there's anything ironic about this. (If anything it looks like the exact opposite of irony, to me.) -Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
