Republic of Nynex - the music of genetic programming

Megapolis 2010 is over! The final generation is here. Here are the future plans for this project: - I am going to make a web-only version and reduce the frequency to a daily run. - A new generation will only advance once there are at least 5 ratings for EACH member of the current generation. - The installation version will play compositions when idle instead of waiting for a click to play it anew. - Change the scoring algorithm to sort samples by age and use their order in the sorted sequence as the score, instead of their raw recency. This will stop a phenomenon I noticed late in the game where having a bunch of samples that were 6 years old making the skew towards newer material practically invisible. - Normalize scores and do a single roulette wheel selection with the chance of a sample being selected proportional to its score. Currently the mutation operator picks a random sample with a uniform distribution and then uses its score to decide whether to pick again. - Come up with some objective component to the fitness operator in addition to user ratings.
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