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Evolutionary Algorithms in a Nutshell

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Why bother?● Yields surpris<strong>in</strong>gly good results on optimizationproblems.● Example: f<strong>in</strong>d a pretty good way to schedulejobs on a processor (m<strong>in</strong>imize wait<strong>in</strong>g time).● Schedul<strong>in</strong>g problems tend to be NP-hard;cannot calculate exact solution.● EAs can also be used to f<strong>in</strong>d numbers close to42.

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