My genetic programming tool is” now smart enough to do symbolic regression. That is a “basic” capability for GP tools. Now I’m going to work on improving it a bit so that it can find solutions faster and more generically. Functionality I’m looking for: automatic function generation, automatic looping and recursion, structure modifying changes, memory.

I’m building this programming program in Clojure, which is a newish dialect of Lisp implemented on top of Java. I’ve never used a Lisp before, so it is an exciting learning curve. I’m really getting into this whole functional programming kick.

Some guys needed to implement a Fortran equivalent function for a Simulink model I made yesterday… they wanted some initial code to start from, so I implemented it in an embedded Matlab block. I initially conceived the program in a functional style, then I realized that they needed to implement it in Fortran. Not the most functional-friendly language.  Oh well.