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Awesome, but why a genetic algorithm? I wonder if it could be formulated as a tractable optimization problem instead.

• elteto 12y ago
  I was thinking the same thing. It is a good exercise to test a genetic algorithm but a numerical solver could have been used as well.
• gravity13 12y ago
  Or perhaps solved more purely using Calculus of Variations.
  • joaquintides 12y ago
    I've added a small postscript explaining why calculus of variations (in its simplest form at least) is not applicable to this problem.
  • foxlisk 12y ago
    that was my first thought too. we developers sometimes get so caught up in development weforget there's a whole world of other tools.
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