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> 20 years ago... This paper caused me to go all in on evolutionary algorithms, and eventually burn out because I could never get any kind of promising result out of it. Wrong choice I guess!

Wow. 36 years ago, I was super excited about neural networks, but lacked the skill to get good results fast enough; meanwhile, a very talented colleague was getting really interesting results from evolutionary algorithms.

It can be hard to move forward all alone.