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Show HN: My self-pub book on Evolutionary Algorithms with Python (inc. sample)
- ad404b8a372f2b9 6y agoVery beautiful cover and interesting topic. I'd have liked the full table of contents to be visible somewhere on the page or in the sample otherwise it's hard to know what you're buying.
- batterylow 6y agoThank you! The table of contents is one of the "preview images", if you scroll a little further down. I'm using a standard template so I tried to make use of what it had!
- batterylow 6y agoI forgot to mention - I made that model on the cover in Unity 3D! I got a little carried away and developed a library for visualising the hypervolume and contributing hypervolume indicator in 3D space!
- sevensor 6y agoGood choice to use Platypus! I've collaborated with its author in the past and I have a lot of respect for him. In general, I'm really glad you're talking about modern MOEAs. There's far too much material on the internet that hasn't progressed beyond Goldberg's GA.
- batterylow 6y agoI can't remember now if I wrote about it in the book, but settling on a decent library was quite difficult. There's so many, with various trade-offs, and some haven't been updated for years! Platypus is great, a few of my PhD students are using it too. Plenty of respect for the author(s)! I'm still updating the book every now and again - eventually working towards one of my research directions on neuroevolution. Some of the classical GA's are good teaching vehicles, but as it's a practical book I'd like to move towards the state-of-the-art too :)