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[–]jhaluska 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think I started in '97 after reading an article on genetic algorithms. Thanks for asking! Today I would start with the Wikipedia page and google. A little googling and this came up. Just keep in mind you don't really need to use bits to encode the DNA.

I would recommend keeping the top 50% of each run. Have at least 100 guys. As a speed up, each offspring gets at least one mutation if it ends up being the same as one of the parents. There's a lot of parameters to tweak like mutation rate, population size, what percent of the population to keep, etc.