Steve Eichert on 5 Feb 2010 11:15:46 -0800


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Re: Proposal for a talk


I'd definitely be interested!

On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Kyle R. Burton <kyle.burton@gmail.com> wrote:
Paul (Santa Clara) and I implemented a simple Genetic Algorithm
framework primarily to learn more about GA/GP.  Paul had never done
anything with it before and I had played around with it in the past.

What we did was based on what I'd done before, we ported the code from
JScheme to Clojure.  The problem isn't really a great example for
applying GA to, but it is easy to understand and see how to GA works -
I think it's a good pedagogical example.

What I was wondering is if there was interest in me giving an 'Intro
to GA' talk using our example as a guide.

The outline might be something like:

 - What is GA in 60s
 - Where did it come from?
 - What have some people done with it? / what's so great about it
 - Ok then, how do you do it?
 - Walk through the example
 - Share some of my observations about GA
   - aspects to watch out for when implementing
   - when not to use it
   - further ideas?


What does the group think?  I think I could have something ready in
3-4wks if there is interest.

Kyle


The sample code is here:  http://github.com/psantacl/ga-sandbox

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