Questions on genetic algorithms, a family of evolutionary search heuristics.

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Are genetic algorithms special instances of random search done in an unexpectedly short run-time? [closed]

I was wondering since randomness is embedded in genetic algorithms at almost every level, is there a really fine line between genetic algorithms and pure random search? Ever since I finished my ...
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Stochasticity of Genetic Algorithm

I have a set of observations of real data, and a set of Random Variables I produce my self. The goal is to generated Random Variables with the same Distribution as the real data. To investigate the ...
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Lamarckian and Genetic algorithm

Yesterday I've done some research how to optimize genetic algorithm and I've encountered a very interesting theory that we can use Lamarckian theory (adaptive theory) to optimize the neural network. ...