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Re:Nature-Inspired Programming Recipes (2011) by jasonb05 on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @10:10PM (#11680881)
Author, here. thanks for the interest guys!

If you like my style, I also have material on machine learning (the statistical sort) over at http://machinelearningmastery.com/

Re:Nature-Inspired Programming Recipes (2011) by tbirdz on Thursday May 12, 2016 @12:03AM (#11681250)
Hi Jason! I read your "Clever Algorithms" book a couple of years ago, and I loved it. I never had a chance to thank you, but since you're here, thank you so much for writing such a fun and interesting book. I just loved it, and I'd recommend it to anyone interested in cool algorithms.
Re:Nature-Inspired Programming Recipes (2011) by jasonb05 on Thursday May 12, 2016 @12:45AM (#11681367)
Thank you so much, you really made my day!
Re:Nature-Inspired Programming Recipes (2011) by mathheaven on Thursday May 12, 2016 @04:46AM (#11682158)
For people like me that are used to only reading the comments: You can read the book online, code is in ruby, example: tabu search for the traveling salesman problem.

I should suggest updating the code by using the python ecosystem: numpy, pandas, scikit-learn and enhacing the value book with a little of ML

Re:Nature-Inspired Programming Recipes (2011) by c3534l on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @09:50PM (#11680802)
Oh my god, it's just a massive list of cool algorithms. I have the biggest nerd-boner.
Re:Nature-Inspired Programming Recipes (2011) by bastih on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @05:31PM (#11679482)
This looks super interesting. Would love a print version, though.
Re:Nature-Inspired Programming Recipes (2011) by tbirdz on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @05:43PM (#11679572)