Incredibly well explained, kudos to author! This reinvigorated my interest in genetic algorithms. Last time I considered getting my hands dirty with GA was for

Incredibly well explained, kudos to author! This reinvigorated my interest in genetic algorithms. Last time I considered getting my hands dirty with GA was for this Kaggle challenge which still remains largely unsolved: https://www.kaggle.com/c/abstraction-and-reasoning-challenge https://www.kaggle.com/c/abstraction-and-reasoning-challenge