On 1/19/25 09:39, Carlos E Murillo-Sanchez via cctalk wrote:
What happened to them? They're everywhere in
academic papers. They've
become an easy way to get published. Nowadays they make up so many bio-
inspired variations of these algorithms that I think that they are going
to run out of animal names to assign to them. Most of these publications
are thrash, but there are a handful of genuine applications.
I recall reading that behavior predictions made by genetic algorithms
would enable one to corner the US stock market. Of course, that was
before 2008.
--Chuck