Archive for November, 2004

GP & Linux

Thursday, November 18th, 2004

I’ve been immersed in getting a Genetic Programming implementation up and running over the last few weeks. The combination of OCaml’s pattern matching and type inferencing have really come through for me, allowing me to comfortably experiment with alterations to the foundations of the system.

In the process, I’ve read quite a few research papers. CiteSeer has proven very helpful and Google just announced Google Scholar which looks promising.

Genetic Programming is extremely computationally expensive and as a result I’ve been doing quite a bit of CPU profiling lately. OCaml unfortunately doesn’t support profiling on Windows, so I’ve been spending some quality time with Linux. I’ve been surprised by how nice the latest distributions are, particularly the “sarge” release of Debian. In fact, for the first time, I now consider Linux a credible alternative to Windows on the desktop.

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