Genetic programming

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1. DoofusOfDeathJun 2017
   Some of the most interesting books I've read in support of my software-development work are:

   * "Compilers: Principles, Techniques, & Tools" by Aho et al. (i.e., "the dragon book")

   * "Data Flow Analysis: Theory and Practice" by Khedker et al.

   * "Understanding MySQL Internals" by Sasha Pachev.

   * "Transaction Processing: Concepts and Techniques" by Gray and Reuter.

   * "Fundamentals of Wireless Communication" by Tse and Viswanath.

   * "Genetic Programming: An Intrduction" by Banzhaf et al.

   * "Applied Crytography" by Schneier.

   EDIT: A few additional comments:

   (1) Although these books are problem-domain specific, some of them had benefits outside of their problem domains:

   * The Dataflow book has some great coverage of fixpoint algorithms. It's really helpful to recognize when some problems are best solved by fixpoint analysis.

   * The "dragon book" takes a lot of the mystery out of compilers. That's somewhat helpful when writing code that needs to be fast. It's super helpful if you want to work with compiler-related technologies such as LLVM.

   * Understanding the fundamental challenges of transaction processing helps you avoid massive misadventures when dealing with databases or concurrent / multithreaded systems.

   (2) YMMV, but I've found it hard to soldier through these books unless I had a need to for my job or for school.

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2. randomsearchMar 2013
   I'd also recommend Wolfgang Banzhaf's book on GP:

   http://www.amazon.co.uk/Genetic-Programming-Introduction-Art...

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