Manuel Ernst – Evolutionary Algorithms 101 | otsconf 2015

The development of evolutionary algorithms is heavily inspired by the processes that are involved in natural evolution. This talk is about the basics of evolutionary algorithms: What is an evolutionary algorithm, what to do with it, when to apply it and what kind of problems are best to be solved by evolutionary algorithms. The talk contains a lot of visual material with live demonstrations of concrete algorithm implementations. Slides: http://ernestly.com/evolution/ About Manuel Manuel has been studying computer science at Georg Simon Ohm University of Applied Sciences in Nuremberg and has been working for the past 7 years as a web developer and technical lead at Musikhaus Thomann e.K. About 14 years ago he started with PHP and since 2012 he is heavily invested in development with node.js both on his working place and in his personal projects. Additionally he is very interested in general CS topics such as compilers, parsers and the theory and implementation of algorithms. He's also playing the drums in a band. https://twitter.com/seriousmanual Recording from the OpenTechSchool Conference 2015 | August 15, 2015 | Dortmund, Germany | https://otsconf.com/ Video production: http://n-systems.org/