How Do Genetic Algorithms Work? [video]

Re:How Do Genetic Algorithms Work? [video] by theatraine on Tuesday February 09, 2016 @06:57PM (#11069811)

I'm curious to see what people have used genetic algorithms for in practice. Personally I've used them for feature selection when I was trying to reduce a high amount of features to smaller amount for a classification problem.

Of course they're definitely great for evolving little cars, like this other example shows: http://rednuht.org/genetic_cars_2/

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Re:How Do Genetic Algorithms Work? [video] by nickpsecurity on Tuesday February 09, 2016 @07:11PM (#11069899)

Google "applications of" genetic algoritms. I got results that way years ago. The abstracts of conference papers are also informative. I remember them used for scheduling/planning and optimization problems. One person even made one to find the optimal set of compiler arguments to get best performance for Haskell programs. Look up Humie Awards for Genetic Programming for a long list of human-equivalent achievements too.

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Re:How Do Genetic Algorithms Work? [video] by Houshalter on Wednesday February 10, 2016 @01:20AM (#11071056)

You should see this fascinating stack overflow thread: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1538235/what-are-good-ex...

My favorite is the guy who got e-ink displays to work using them.

Also see the Hummie awards, for the best use of genetic algorithms outperforming humans: http://www.genetic-programming.org/combined.php

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Re:How Do Genetic Algorithms Work? [video] by auxym on Tuesday February 09, 2016 @09:36PM (#11070412)

A grad-student-colleague of mine developped a control system for a robot using hyper-redundant binary-state actuators using GA's to search the solution space.

See: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICRA.2013.6630624

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Re:How Do Genetic Algorithms Work? [video] by aheilbut on Tuesday February 09, 2016 @11:22PM (#11070749)

One interesting group of practical applications are the product design and optimization tools from Affinova http://www.affinova.com

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