At the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat
-Roosevelt

motivation

How to train your neural network using a genetic algorithm

Artificial neural networks can be used to solve a wide variety of tasks that are hard to solve using rule-based programming. A genetic algorithm (GA) is a search technique used in computing to find exact or approximate solutions to optimization and search problems.

xkcd: Genetic Algorithms

Working with rgho to basically implement what’s described in the following paper for our project babelbrain: a machine learning algorithm to classify language of a given input.