From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2002-08-09T06:48:47+09:00
Subject: Re: The whole 'Spades' thing: GA and cardbots

----- Original Message ----- 
From: " JamesBritt" <james@jamesbritt.com>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2002 10:17 AM
Subject: RE: The whole 'Spades' thing: GA and cardbots


> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Hal E. Fulton [mailto:hal9000@hypermetrics.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2002 12:52 AM
> > To: ruby-talk ML
> > Subject: The whole 'Spades' thing: GA and cardbots
> > 
> > 
> > OK, I have more useful things to be doing.
> > 
> > But sometimes I like to code just for fun.
> > I can admit that here, right?  :)
> > 
> > What I had in mind for the Spades project
> > was originally a genetic algorithm type 
> > of thing.
> > 
> > That is, you define a genome based on some
> > options for bidding and playing, and you
> > play the members of the population against
> > each other as they evolve.
> 
> Is there a reason to use GA instead of genetic programming (GP)?
> This sounds like the sort of problem GP is specifically good for.

Sorry, I've always been unclear on the difference.
As I said, I've done some reading but not much else.

I thought GA was data-centric and GP was code-centric?
Of course, in Ruby, either might be as easy.

Hal