Erik Max Francis wrote: > If you went into detail I could probably tell you whether or not what > you're doing is "obviously" a genetic algorithm, or "obviously" an > instance of genetic programming, or somewhere in between. Without > internal structure it's probably more likely closer to genetic algorithms.
You're certainly correct there. The leap to GP is much farther than my stuff is from GA. >... for many problems, it > seems that genetic programming has a greater ability to produce > solutions to much more complex problems (where often you do not even > know the high-level form that they will take -- something you need to > decide to put together a genetic algorithm). I agree, and I look forward to seeing Psi some time, if just to help me learn more in the area. Thanks again for the comments. -Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list