[lokimedes]

Reminds me of https://www.nutonian.com/products/eureqa/ which I used quite productively to model multivariate distributions from data back in the 2000’s. Funny how everything stays the same, but with a new set of players on the bandwagon.

[jmmcd]

Not really similar. Nutonian did straight-up genetic programming symbolic regression. This does genetic programming to discover ML algorithms.

[lokimedes]

Actually it is somewhat similar as both find the model, and obliviously fits the data to that model in the process. My use was finding a parameterization that could be reused through regular regression fitting.