Genetic algorithms

Genetic algorithm [[design patterns]]:

• Principle of Meaningful Building Blocks. Learn from the [[building block hypothesis]] and find a coding that can express short, low-order schemata that are relevant to the underlying problem and relatively unrelated to schemata over other fixed positions.
• [[small alphabets | Principle of Minimal Alphabets]]: design the the smallest genetic alphabet that permits a natural expression of the problem.

From How genetic algorithms work.

[[Provoking emergence]] [[Evolution]]