Source code for Genesis is here until I get asdf-install going. What are Genetic Algorithms? Genetic algorithms are one of the best things that computer science has produced. Rather than figuring out a good algorithm yourself, you let your random number generator find one while you sleep! Well, after an up-front design cost to generate [...]
Or, Why It’s Sometimes Better To Inherit Than to Write a Wrapper Class All Part of the Process I recently wrote code in C# that needed to call an external program for an answer. No problem! Let’s just instantiate the Process class and be on our merry way! public static string GetOutputFromProcess(string name, string args) [...]
I’ve learned a subset of Common Lisp that is large enough to start writing programs. This uncovered a small problem: how do I know I’m doing it right? Lisp is an old language, and there are ancient conventions and standards written deep in the caverns of MIT. Fortunately for me, the internet is best used [...]
