[aangjie]

> In addition, the algorithm that the author attempts to describe is called Simulated Annealing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulated_annealing

And the last one i thought was a nod to genetic programming.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_programming

[TeMPOraL]

You mean Genetic Programming or Genetic Algorithms? Because they're not the same. The former is what happens when you apply the latter to optimize an abstract syntax tree :).