julius383 / genarith

Genetic Algorithm for Guessing Expressions in Julia

Genetic Algorithm for Guessing Expressions

Try and guess an expression such as 4 * 5 when given input of a number such as 20. I wrote an article describing this project.

Installing

1. clone this repo
2. cd into directory
3. start julia repl and enter package mode with ]
4. run activate . to activate project
5. install dependencies with instantiate
6. in shell run sqlite3 data.db < db.sql to create table for saving stats

Running

Include genarith.jl into the repl and run the ga function with target = somevalue. Optionally uncomment the last few lines of genarith.jl to be able to do julia --project genarith.jl somevalue to run the program from the CLI.