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Clever Algorithms: Nature-Inspired Programming Recipes

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Resurfaced independently across 6 calendar years, with breakout response in 2 of them.

submissions
10
submitters
8
observed span
2011–2019
peak thread · 13 comments
189 pts
latest 20+ return · 2017-11-19
189 pts

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2007–2026

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I saw this book on HN several years ago, and thought it was pretty interesting, and maybe worth reading. Unluckily, it didn't help me very much in learning more about this field, nor did I think it was very helpful for solving other problems. Basically, it's more of an encyclopedia than a textbook, and not a good starting point. Every post is basically separated into "biological inspiration", a brief description of the algorithm itself, and then a listing of the…

chillee·189-point thread·

Previous discussion (cpl months ago): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2141542

Author, here. thanks for the interest guys! If you like my style, I also have material on machine learning (the statistical sort) over at http://machinelearningmastery.com/

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2

100+ points or 50+ comments

Total points
611

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Total comments
33

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Every submission

DateTitle as submittedByPointsComments
2011-01-25Clever Algorithms: Nature-Inspired Programming Recipessigna1140
2011-04-03Clever algorithms in RubyFirst breakouthelwr1467
2011-04-10Clever Algorithms: Nature-Inspired Programming Recipesbinarray200015813
2013-12-26Clever Algorithms (ebook)dhruvbhatia20
2016-05-10Nature-Inspired Programming Recipes (2011)dacm997
2017-07-08Clever Algorithmsmycat50
2017-07-20Clever Algorithms: Nature-Inspired Programming RecipesTomte40
2017-11-19Clever Algorithms: Nature-Inspired Programming RecipesBest thread · Latest 20+ point returnTomte1896
2018-09-28Clever Algorithms: Nature-Inspired Programming Recipesdacm20
2019-03-10Clever Algorithms: Nature-Inspired Programming Recipes (2015)lrsjng20