jmmcd comments on Automatic programming, an example - Less Wrong

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Comment author: jmmcd 02 February 2012 07:23:28PM *  7 points [-]

This is a fairly typical example of genetic programming, albeit written in a slightly "outsider" way.

No criticism, but readers should be given the standard name of the technique.

EDIT in particular it's GP symbolic regression. On the other hand it's atypical in that there's no crossover.