I found it got off to a bit of a slow start, but was a fun, rewarding, and very real-world read. In particular, I appreciated admissions like this: > Writing

I found it got off to a bit of a slow start, but was a fun, rewarding, and very real-world read. In particular, I appreciated admissions like this: > Writing our own genetic algorithm in C# was a bad idea. It took us weeks to implement, test, and optimize. Not to mention all the time spent waiting for results. There was a better solution available all along (the optim function in R). Because we didn’t do proper research, we overlooked it and lost time. Sigh. ... which far too few eng blogs overlook / fail to mention.