https://twitter.com/hmkz_/status/1145541099034800128?s=21
People who disparage genetic algorithms are usually wrong because their perception stops at simple GA or (1+1)-ES of bit-coding in the 1980's. I wish you would at least read Information-Geometric Optimization Algorithms: A Unifying Picture via Invariance Principles before saying anything.
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