en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/606661 Comments by pjonesdotca http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2009/engine-yard-contest-challenge-phrase-and-dictionary/#IDComment27909831 46 after about 44k generations Tue, 21 Jul 2009 23:54:04 +0000 http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2009/engine-yard-contest-challenge-phrase-and-dictionary/#IDComment27909831 http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2009/engine-yard-contest-challenge-phrase-and-dictionary/#IDComment27851636 I wouldn't mind seeing your code on this. I did a quick refactor to get the capitalisation (String.swapcase) but eschewed the random characters. Lowest score for me so far is 47. Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:18:40 +0000 http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2009/engine-yard-contest-challenge-phrase-and-dictionary/#IDComment27851636 http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2009/engine-yard-contest-challenge-phrase-and-dictionary/#IDComment27815684 Generation 381: hamming distance 47 Maybe the old GA is competitive after all... Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:01:41 +0000 http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2009/engine-yard-contest-challenge-phrase-and-dictionary/#IDComment27815684 http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2009/engine-yard-contest-challenge-phrase-and-dictionary/#IDComment27795970 Actually, I ignored the whole "change the capitalisation bit" as well as the random five character word at the end. I ended up with midpoint crossover and a mutation rate of .25 Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:00:27 +0000 http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2009/engine-yard-contest-challenge-phrase-and-dictionary/#IDComment27795970 http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2009/engine-yard-contest-challenge-phrase-and-dictionary/#IDComment27794712 43 does sound good. I'm using a custom GA and down only to 56 after 40 minutes. Mon, 20 Jul 2009 19:45:30 +0000 http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2009/engine-yard-contest-challenge-phrase-and-dictionary/#IDComment27794712 http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2009/programming-contest-win-iphone-3gs-2k-cloud-credit/#IDComment27391190 I notice that there is a difference in the reported binary ouput (this one has spaces for each hex digit) where as the first example was a long stream of the binary output. Will spaces be considered in the hamming distance? Thu, 16 Jul 2009 01:34:49 +0000 http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2009/programming-contest-win-iphone-3gs-2k-cloud-credit/#IDComment27391190