What are genetic algorithms, and anyone know of any useful or interesting ones (or applications of genetic algorithms such as that app Dawkins likes) ?

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anonymous · Answer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_algorithm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weasel_program#Weasel_algorithm

anonymous · Answer

http://ideone.com/tYRd5

anonymous · Answer

this wasn't covered in the ai-class :(

anonymous · Answer

Here's a good tutorial i've come across. http://www.ai-junkie.com/ga/intro/gat1.html Then he uses a genetic algorithm to train a feed forward neural network, very interesting. =) http://www.ai-junkie.com/ann/evolved/nnt1.html

anonymous · Answer

basically, genetic algorithms can be used to solve NP-Hard, and NP-Complete problems with near optimal solutions quickly. They can be used for process scheduling in distributed operating systems, and to solve traveling salesman problem, to find best path in a given network etc etc.

anonymous · Answer

Aren't search algorithms also used for the same problems? If so, then how do genetic algorithms compare to ordinary search algorithms like A*?