I work on Valve time.

I have decided to implement a back-end genome. This is largely because the solution I am implementing at the moment is akin to random guessing.



For each entity there will be a corresponding genome saved in my system that can keep track of exactly what is being/can be edited this will allow my system a certain degree of fuzzy logic when it comes to dealing with other languages.

The genome will track exactly what is in the entity on the sub-string level.

Who actually keeps new year resolutions?

Back in college and beginning a more intensive approach to this project.

Currently working on getting a back-end genome system working. I'll throw together a picture for yee tomorrow.

New Year

As part of my new years resolution I will posting here every day.

I have also have created an image for my project, the glider.

LML

One of the biggest issues that my system will have is being able to understand and manipulate any language. My plan for this is to get the user to quantify there language into a set mark-up language. For this purpose I created a language mark-up language or LML.

This part is needed to force the user to translate there language into a format that my genetic logic can deal with, need to be broad enough to be able to cover most modern languages. I also needed to be easy enough to learn so that anyone could use it. But one of the most important issues was the fact it needed to be efficient so that there isn't a gigantic overhead.

/$call$/(1+_Dup_Cha)

The above line is an example of LML. It indicates that a line from the “call” file is needed. The 1+ means there will be one or more instances of the line in the entity. Dup means that there can be identical lines in the system, the opposite of Dup is Uni which insures the line is unique. Cha means that the genetic logic can alter the line later with out the fear the program will break.

Implementing Corewar

Corewar is the first virtual environment that I have implemented. The entities that it runs are written in redcode, form of assembly. This is is a language with a very small grammar. It has only 16 calls. A small working bot can be written quickly but a complex and efficient one takes a lot of work.

@@Corewar

@@Main

/|/ Ver 5 of ml.

/|/ Core of corewars set

--;Gen:

--;Name:

--;Number of Copies:

;redcode-94

/$call$/(1+_Dup_Cha)

end

Above is the main centre of the redcode LML.

Below is one of the first entities in the redcode language, 00007.red.

;Gen:

;Name:

;Number of Copies:

;redcode-94

JMP <31,>

end

To display corewar battles I will be using Aries, a detailed and really good looking gui for corewar. For the actual evolution part I will use qMars[3]. This is a library that a client can pass redcode entities to and will return who wins as well as how well they won by and any other information I will need.

At the moment my system is not properly handling the fitness but this is an issue that can be fixed down the line.