What You Learned
Genetic Algorithms in Elixir — by Sean Moriarity (47 / 101)
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In this chapter, you learned about the importance of selection and how it correlates to picking the best team. You also learned about the importance of balancing genetic diversity with fitness and how selection pressure is an indication of how well a strategy balances those two characteristics.
You also learned about various selection strategies, how to implement them, and when they’re useful. You should now have four different selection strategies in your toolbox to experiment with on various problems. Try messing around with each of these strategies to see what kind of results you get.
In the next chapter, you’re going to utilize selected parents to create new solutions for your population.
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