Monthly Archives: October 2014

Research: Testing the Genetic Parameters

These past two weeks has been a mess for me with midterms and sickness, but I was able to squeeze out some time to work on my research. I modified my code a bit to run the algorithm multiple times with … Continue reading

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Research: Refactoring for Codons, First (Real) Results, and GitHub

This week, I refactored my code out of the analogy that I’ve been working in up to this point. The Python script now inputs real genetic sequences and outputs optimized versions of them. I also implemented gnuplot.py to automatically generate … Continue reading

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Research: Migration to Python and First Results

This week for my research I migrated the testing code from JavaScript to Python and added a score matrix input file and function to calculate the score of a given solution. Now that I had the score function, I was able … Continue reading

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Research: Crossover and Mutation Function Changes

This week, I made some changes to my testing code in the mutation and crossover functions. http://codepen.io/shoffing/pen/qdBgl Previously, my crossover function had random individual country-city pairs being selected from either one of the parents, resulting in something like shuffling two half-decks of cards … Continue reading

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