Re: Ideas that didn't come off

Scout wrote:
I guess I'm asking to hear from others that have come up with bright ideas, to admit their failure, and tell us what, why and how.

i don't know if it was a bright idea, but at the time i thought it was pretty cool.
basically i invented a kind of genetic programming, but later i found out i was like 15 years behind Koza.
and my methods weren't nearly as elegant.

i wrote a simple scipt language that could run randomly generated code without crashing.
when it came to a syntax error, it would ignore it and do the best it could to make sense of the code.
the problem with this approach is that it makes the search space a lot larger.
but its pretty easy to write the crossover operator <g>
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