What You Learned

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In this chapter, you learned about informed search and why it’s superior to brute-force search for finding solutions to difficult problems. You also learned about the types of problems, like finding an optimal shipping route between cities, that are nearly impossible to solve using brute-force search. Most importantly, you learned what genetic algorithms are and how to implement a basic genetic algorithm to solve the One-Max problem.

In the next section, you’ll take the genetic algorithm you created here and use it to start implementing a general framework that you can apply to numerous other problems.

Footnotes

[4] https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/Enum.html

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