这是一段时间以前的事了，但我滚动了一个GA来进化实际上是图像处理内核的东西，以从哈勃太空望远镜(HST)图像中去除宇宙射线痕迹。标准的方法是用哈勃望远镜进行多次曝光，只保留所有图像中相同的东西。由于HST时间是如此宝贵，我是一个天文学爱好者，最近参加了进化计算大会，我考虑使用GA来清理单次曝光。

这些个体以树的形式存在，以3x3像素的区域作为输入，执行一些计算，并决定是否以及如何修改中心像素。通过将输出图像与用传统方法(即叠加曝光)清理的图像进行比较来判断适合度。

这实际上是可行的，但还不足以让我们放弃原来的方法。如果我的论文没有时间限制，我可能已经扩展了算法可用的遗传部分。我很确定我可以大大提高它。

使用的库:如果我没记错的话，用于天文图像数据处理和I/O的IRAF和cfitsio。

进化计算研究生班: 开发了TopCoder马拉松比赛49:megpartty的解决方案。我的小组正在测试不同的域表示法，以及不同的表示法如何影响ga找到正确答案的能力。我们为这个问题编写了自己的代码。

Neuroevolution and Generative and Developmental Systems, Graduate Class: Developed an Othello game board evaluator that was used in the min-max tree of a computer player. The player was set to evaluate one-deep into the game, and trained to play against a greedy computer player that considered corners of vital importance. The training player saw either 3 or 4 deep (I'll need to look at my config files to answer, and they're on a different computer). The goal of the experiment was to compare Novelty Search to traditional, fitness-based search in the Game Board Evaluation domain. Results were relatively inconclusive, unfortunately. While both the novelty search and fitness-based search methods came to a solution (showing that Novelty Search can be used in the Othello domain), it was possible to have a solution to this domain with no hidden nodes. Apparently I didn't create a sufficiently competent trainer if a linear solution was available (and it was possible to have a solution right out of the gates). I believe my implementation of Fitness-based search produced solutions more quickly than my implementation of Novelty search, this time. (this isn't always the case). Either way, I used ANJI, "Another NEAT Java Implementation" for the neural network code, with various modifications. The Othello game I wrote myself.

没有家庭作业。

1995年，我作为专业程序员的第一份工作是为标准普尔500指数期货编写一个基于遗传算法的自动交易系统。该应用程序是用Visual Basic 3 [!我不知道我当时是怎么做的，因为VB3甚至没有课程。

The application started with a population of randomly-generated fixed-length strings (the "gene" part), each of which corresponded to a specific shape in the minute-by-minute price data of the S&P500 futures, as well as a specific order (buy or sell) and stop-loss and stop-profit amounts. Each string (or "gene") had its profit performance evaluated by a run through 3 years of historical data; whenever the specified "shape" matched the historical data, I assumed the corresponding buy or sell order and evaluated the trade's result. I added the caveat that each gene started with a fixed amount of money and could thus potentially go broke and be removed from the gene pool entirely.

在对种群的每一次评估之后，幸存者被随机杂交(通过混合来自两个亲本的片段)，一个基因被选择为亲本的可能性与它产生的利润成正比。我还添加了点突变的可能性，让事情变得有趣一点。经过几百代这样的基因，我最终得到了一个基因群，它可以把5000美元变成平均约10000美元，而且没有死亡/破碎的可能性(当然是在历史数据上)。

Unfortunately, I never got the chance to use this system live, since my boss lost close to $100,000 in less than 3 months trading the traditional way, and he lost his willingness to continue with the project. In retrospect, I think the system would have made huge profits - not because I was necessarily doing anything right, but because the population of genes that I produced happened to be biased towards buy orders (as opposed to sell orders) by about a 5:1 ratio. And as we know with our 20/20 hindsight, the market went up a bit after 1995.

当你打算粉刷你的房子时，通常很难得到一个确切的颜色组合。通常，你脑海中有一些颜色，但它不是其中一种颜色，供应商向你展示。

昨天，我的GA研究员教授提到了一个发生在德国的真实故事(对不起，我没有更多的参考资料，是的，如果有人要求我可以找到它)。这个家伙(让我们称他为配色员)曾经挨家挨户地帮助人们找到确切的颜色代码(RGB)，这将是客户心目中的衣柜。下面是他的做法:

The color guy used to carry with him a software program which used GA. He used to start with 4 different colors- each coded as a coded Chromosome (whose decoded value would be a RGB value). The consumer picks 1 of the 4 colors (Which is the closest to which he/she has in mind). The program would then assign the maximum fitness to that individual and move onto the next generation using mutation/crossover. The above steps would be repeated till the consumer had found the exact color and then color guy used to tell him the RGB combination!

通过将最大适应度分配给接近消费者想法的颜色，配色员的程序增加了收敛到消费者想法的颜色的机会。我发现它很有趣!

现在我已经得到了一个-1，如果你计划更多的-1，请说明这样做的原因!

我为我的公司在1992年为货运业开发的3D激光表面轮廓系统开发了一个家庭酿造GA。 该系统依赖于三维三角测量，并使用了定制的激光线扫描仪，512x512相机(具有定制的捕获hw)。相机和激光之间的距离永远不会是精确的，相机的焦点也不会在你期望的256,256的位置找到!

尝试使用标准几何和模拟退火式方程求解来计算校准参数是一场噩梦。

遗传算法在一个晚上就完成了，我创建了一个校准立方体来测试它。我知道立方体的精度很高，因此我的想法是，我的遗传算法可以为每个扫描单元进化一组自定义三角测量参数，以克服生产变化。

这招很管用。退一步说，我简直目瞪口呆!在大约10代的时间里，我的“虚拟”立方体(由原始扫描生成并根据校准参数重新创建)实际上看起来像一个立方体!经过大约50代之后，我得到了我需要的校准。

There was an competition on codechef.com (great site by the way, monthly programming competitions) where one was supposed to solve an unsolveable sudoku (one should come as close as possible with as few wrong collumns/rows/etc as possible).What I would do, was to first generate a perfect sudoku and then override the fields, that have been given. From this pretty good basis on I used genetic programming to improve my solution.I couldn't think of a deterministic approach in this case, because the sudoku was 300x300 and search would've taken too long.