I once was really interested in finding patterns in prime numbers. I got a long csv file of prime numbers from the internet. I used symbolic regression on it, t

I once was really interested in finding patterns in prime numbers. I got a long csv file of prime numbers from the internet. I used symbolic regression on it, to try to predict the next prime in the list. Symbolic regression basically uses genetic algorithms to fit mathematical expressions to data. The program I was using, Eureqa, tries to find the simplest expressions that fit, with only a handful of elements. To prevent overfitting, and give a human understandable model. Anyway this actually worked. Far from perfectly of course, but it was able to get much better than random predictions. It was definitely finding some pattern. Unfortunately I used up Eureqas free trial forever ago, and I'm not going to pay thousands of dollars to buy a subscription. But I am now thinking of writing my own software to do this, and then running it on a dataset of mathematical sequences like the primes.