{"id":257,"date":"2008-04-10T12:35:02","date_gmt":"2008-04-10T16:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/?p=251"},"modified":"2008-04-10T12:35:02","modified_gmt":"2008-04-10T16:35:02","slug":"genetic-programming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/04\/10\/genetic-programming\/","title":{"rendered":"Genetic Programming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3159\/2296264822_0f0f1fb52c.jpg?v=0\" align=\"left\" height=\"180\" hspace=\"5\" width=\"250\" \/>Ricardo Poli, William Langdon, and Nicolas McPhee have just published a book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/content\/2167025\">&#8220;A Field Guide to Genetic Programming&#8221;<\/a> and have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gp-field-guide.org.uk\/\">blog<\/a> to support it.\u00a0 The neat thing about this book is that the pdf is freely downloadable, with printed copies available cheaply through lulu.com.\u00a0 I spent a half hour thumbing through the book, and am very impressed with it.\u00a0 It is highly readable, and not hype-driven.\u00a0 I found it a very good introduction to the method, along with a fair assessment of its strengths, weaknesses, and prospects.<\/p>\n<p>The copyright on this is a form of <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/2.0\/uk\/\">&#8220;Creative Commons&#8221;<\/a>, perhaps the sign of a trend away from the expensive, restrictive copyrights of commercial publishers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ricardo Poli, William Langdon, and Nicolas McPhee have just published a book &#8220;A Field Guide to Genetic Programming&#8221; and have blog to support it.\u00a0 The neat thing about this book is that the pdf is freely downloadable, with printed copies available cheaply through lulu.com.\u00a0 I spent a half hour thumbing through the book, and am &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/04\/10\/genetic-programming\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Genetic Programming&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}