Back in the day I tried applying genetic algorithms to corewars as a high school science fair project.
I lost. They had no idea what was talking about. Early lesson in the importants of communicating technical ideas.
I lost. They had no idea what was talking about. Early lesson in the importants of communicating technical ideas.
Guys from the IEEE talked to me at length, loved it, and gave me their grand prize. Two judges (both Lisp hackers (and both thrilled to see an 18-year old doing AI with CL)) also loved it...but the other judges did not understand it at all, so I didn't even place at the actual fair. Sigh.
Really required a large number of generations, which my poor turbo pascal skills or lack of hardware didn't really provide. I wonder if I can find that code on a floppy somewhere...