Project Log: Day 65

I scr**ed up a bit there

Of course I made a mistake… It was the most stupid of things, but I was saving the results in the wrong file, and so sometimes I was overwriting a simulation result for a given configuration with that of a different configuration (facepalm).

And so after having my two computers run for DAYS last week, I had to throw basically all of it away, correct the code, and start over. And that’s what’s happening now. I still really much like to have my computers run while I sleep, I feel soooo much more productive.

Saved files late at night — Generating results in my sleep

Working on visualizing results

Then again, I could have saved some of it, but then I took the opportunity to save some more details of each simulation. Which allows me to do things a bit like so, which I won’t explain yet (these are draft visualizations):

Visualizing choice evolution of the GA — Visualizing evolution of the GA, where it focuses on some nodes over others

3D graph of improvement managed by the Genetic Algorithm — Value of choosing the right nodes to act on in different configurations (with errors)

So well, it’s not all been completely a waste.

Conclusion

Making mistakes while coding I guess is what happens, finding out late is me not running enough tests. But making the best out of it was a good choice, as I can show things better (will be good for the dissertation).