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Re:Climbing the wrong hill (2009) by aangjie on Monday April 17, 2017 @02:21AM (#14129523)
> In addition, the algorithm that the author attempts to describe is called Simulated Annealing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulated_annealing

And the last one i thought was a nod to genetic programming.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_programming

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Re:Climbing the wrong hill (2009) by TeMPOraL on Monday April 17, 2017 @05:43AM (#14130018)
You mean Genetic Programming or Genetic Algorithms? Because they're not the same. The former is what happens when you apply the latter to optimize an abstract syntax tree :).
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