Logging Statistics Using ETS
During an evolution, you may want to track statistics about fitness, age, or variation in your population over the course of the evolution. For example, perhaps you want to determine the distribution of a particular gene at different generations during the evolution.
In this section, you’ll create a statistics server using a GenServer and an ETS table. Remember, a GenServer is an abstraction around state that models client-server behavior. It allows you to spin up a long-running process and alter its state through message passing. ETS stands for Erlang Term Storage and offers a built-in storage API through Erlang interpolation. The GenServer will allow you to supervise the ETS table. The ETS table will allow you ...
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