good morning... making CSV files. once a day 😉

Trying my hand at evolutionary programming with help of spec. Rather disappointed at how quickly generation doesn't work anymore.

Every time I experiment with spec + generation it's cool, but not great.

sounds interesting @bbss

what are you trying to achieve?

I made a couple of high level functions for a bot playing starcraft. Like (build "building-structure/unit") (select "unit" :at-least 10 :whenever-goals-succeed (add-plans (attack :at-location :enemy-base))))

That all works, and now I want to see how well the bot will discover builds that are effective.

So I "evolve" the nodes of these functions.

Not sure if it's gonna work at all but it is an interesting experiment for sure 🙂

and since the functions it can use are fairly high level I expect it to at least find some useful plans.

sounds interesting!

http://gigasquidsoftware.com/blog/2016/07/18/genetic-programming-with-clojure-dot-spec/

this is what inspired it

I suspected that 😉

not that I really understand it though

It’s been more than 10 years I did some evolutionary programming in college, just simple problems. Still want to do something with ai and games sometime, especially in online games.

i always figured test.check's shrinking and clojure.spec would be a better fit

would need some minor adjustments, rather than working with test pass / fail with a desired score

I used that to detect a dependency problem once. https://github.com/borkdude/dependency-problem