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Strange Code
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Strange Code

by Ronald T. Kneusel
September 2022
Intermediate to advanced
496 pages
12h 32m
English
No Starch Press
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GENETIC PROGRAMMING WITH FIREFLY

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In Chapter 15, we explored the Firefly language with fun animations and music. In this appendix, we’ll use Firefly along with genetic programming to evolve displays we can then animate.

Introduction to Genetic Programming

Genetic programming became widely known in the early 1990s. Genetic programming uses algorithms to create programs by mimicking biological evolution. Instead of manually writing the code to perform a task, genetic programming generates and runs a population of random programs to see how well they perform. Each program in the population is given a fitness value, often called an objective function ...

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ISBN: 9781098141363