> I love genetic algorithms
Is this a "genetic algorithm" though? Besides "select the best performing run", it doesn't seem to have anything to do with crossovers, mutations, etc at all, just "select best", which makes it seem less of a genetic algorithm to me I guess. Might just be me being confused about what counts as an "genetic algorithm" vs not though, I won't claim to be an expert in the field exactly.
i think there's a lack of verbiage for "optimization that doesnt involve gradient descent"
i think there might be a conflation of "problems a genetic algorithm could be used for" vs "using the genetic algorithm to solve the problem"