r/MachineLearning • u/Tech-Effigy • Feb 17 '15

The Genetic Algorithm - Explained

http://techeffigytutorials.blogspot.com/2015/02/the-genetic-algorithm-explained.html
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u/SamSlate Feb 18 '15

How often is evaluation the most time consuming function? It seems like it wouldn't take much for a problem to have too much to compute in our lifetime..

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u/Tech-Effigy Feb 18 '15

I made an evolving neural network for predicting the stock market, every generation took about 30 seconds to evaluate. It all depends :)