The Genetic Algorithm, Neural Networks, Feature-Extraction and Use



Still playing catch-up from the hurricane, but we're almost there. We covered three broad areas in this class: the Genetic Algorithm (meaning a particular approach to algorithmically-solving problems, the underlying concept drawn from basic genetics/evolution theory), neural networks, and feature-extraction and subsequent use. All three of these approaches are a little different from the past techniques we have been covering in that they aren't data-generating algorithms per se. Instead they are techniques that may be employed in the construction of music in various ways, decision-making, categorization, etc.

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