In the past, I absolutely loved messing around with genetic algorithms. The idea of bringing the power of natural selection to bear to solve all manner of problems just appeals to me for some reason. So when I came across a puzzle on on Programming Praxis called flibs source code
The eventual goal will be–given a binary sequence–to evolve a finite state machine that will recognize the sequence and output the same, offset by one. So if we’re given the sequence 010011010011, the solution will output something like this: 001001101001.