From: Peter C. McCluskey (pcm@rahul.net)
Date: Sat Jan 17 1998 - 20:03:21 MST
eugene@liposome.genebee.msu.su (Eugene Leitl) writes:
>I think what cripples current system is that the GA/GP system's metalevel
>(obviously only the fitness function should be sacred, orelse we float off
>into Never-Never land) is not open to GA optimization, which makes the
>resulting system limited, and brittle. A good GP must adjust at least the
>mutation rate and the coding to guarantee a certain kind of optimal
I see no sign that these are significant impediments to the usefullness
of GA/GP's. CPU time appears to be the biggest problem. Last I heard, Koza
had a 64 processor system, and was waiting hours if not days for a typical
run to finish.
And of course, translating abstract problems into fitness functions
is not a trivial programming task.
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