[stcredzero]

> Then our Charles simply had to figure out how Mrs Kipling scored the cakes and he could genetically evolve the best cake!

"And then a miracle happens." Isn't the fitness function the "key ingredient?" (It's in the source code, but not in the text for a reason.)

Still a good explanation of the rest.

[GuiA]

> "And then a miracle happens."

One of the favorite quotes of my graduate advisor, thanks for the chuckle :)

For those who are unfamiliar with the reference:

http://star.psy.ohio-state.edu/coglab/Miracle.html (mirror image: http://i.imgur.com/k7gm70t.jpg)

[jacques_chester]

One of the things that optimising algorithms are really good at doing is demonstrating that your fitness function is incompletely specified.