[jlturner]

If this interests you, it’s worth taking a look at Genetic Programming. I find it to be a simpler approach at the same problem, no math required. It simply recombines programs by their AST, and given some heuristic, optimizes the program for it. The magic is in your heuristic function, where you can choose what you want to optimize for (ie. Speed, program length, minimize complex constructs or function calls, network efficiency, some combination therein, etc).

https://youtu.be/tTMpKrKkYXo

[nickpsecurity]

I’ll add the Humies Awards that highlight human-competitive results. One can learn a lot about what can or can’t be done in this field by just skimming across all the submitted papers.

https://www.human-competitive.org/

[PixelN0va]

hmm thanks for the link