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Re:Show HN: A Genetic Algorithm I wrote in JavaScript to evo... by abhikshah on Monday December 13, 2010 @11:16PM (#2003101)
The fitness function does take char location into account. In python, it'd be -1*sum(abs(x-y) for x,y in zip(chromosome,target)).

The gradient here is continuous and smooth. Problems where GA is an appropriate solution have fitness landscapes that are much more pathological.

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