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A Look into the Future - Source Code Generation by the Bots

by Dmitriy Gakh

The perspectives of creating bots that write programs with two simple examples.

ANNT : Convolutional neural networks

by Andrew Kirillov

The article demonstrates usage of ANNT library for creating convolutional ANNs and applying them to image classification tasks.

CppEvent - How to Implement Events using Standard C++

by Shmuel Zang

This article shows how we can implement a thread-safe events (similar to .NET events) mechanism using the standard C++ library.

Hashcash or "Proof of Work"

by Marc Clifton

Hashcash is a proof-of-work system used to limit email spam and denial-of-service attacks, and more recently has become known for its use in bitcoin (and other cryptocurrencies) as part of the mining algorithm.

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Your Own AVI Shop

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ToDoList 8.2 - An Effective and Flexible Way to Keep on Top of Your Tasks

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A hierarchical task manager with native XML support for custom reporting

VB .NET/WinForms: Create Form's MainMenu by Load Menu from Resource-Only DLL

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Load Menu from Resource-Only DLL (created by VC++) and Set for Form As MainMenu by API Functions.

EXTENDED Version of Extended Rich Text Box (RichTextBoxEx)

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I've created an enhanced version of the Extended RichTextBox created by Razi Syed.

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Visual Studio 2015

How to add ms-access database column in any string [] in C#

1 Dec 2016 by #realJSOP

Put a try/catch block in your code, and that will give you the opportunity to determine where your problem is:OldDbConnection conn = null;OleDbCommand cmd = null;OleDbDataReader reader = null;string query = "SELECT * FROM userdic";try{ using (conn = new...

How would I go about unmasking encrypted characters in a numerical string to show out put as numbers and not masked data?

24 Feb 2021 by - srybczyk-

I am using VS 19 and PyCharm, I am working on and trying to learn how to unmask characters like you would when you want a password to be seen or not for my web page and also for users for users who make purchases. Now it isn't secure I would be...

ToDoList 8.2 - An Effective and Flexible Way to Keep on Top of Your Tasks

17 Sep 2023 by .dan.g.

A hierarchical task manager with native XML support for custom reporting

Hosting 8bf Plugins in a .NET Application

27 Dec 2015 by 0xC0000054

A C# library to host Photoshop-compatible filters in .NET 2.0 and later

WDK does not integrate with VS 2015!

2 Oct 2015 by 0xF4

Hi,I started using VS2015 Community edition some time back, and today when I downloaded WDK for Windows 8.1, I found that it did not integrate with my VS2015. My VS installation is fine. Why is this happening?Thanks.

How to NLog (4.2) with Visual Studio 2015

11 Nov 2015 by _Noctis_

This will let you start logging quickly with VS2015 and NLog 4.2.

VSTA Begineer - Need help

19 Jan 2012 by A Roychowdhury

I am new to VSTA and am not getting much help. My working environment is VS2008, VSTA 2.0, Asp.Net with C#.My initial requirement is that, user will open a excel and click on a button within that excel. Once clicked on that button a web page will open.Please help me get this and please...

how to integrate web application in windows forms application?

31 Jan 2016 by Abhinav S

You can display the web browser inside windows form application using a web browser control[^].If you want to convert a web application to a windows form one, it needs coding effort.

Gulp Configuration in ASP.NET MVC Core 1.0 Application

19 Aug 2016 by Adi_Mag

Step by step guide to configure gulp in ASP.NET MVC core 1.0

Controlling Installed Services via ServiceController in WinForms

18 Feb 2016 by Admir Tershalla

Learn how to control Windows services via ServiceController in Windows Forms Application

jParser PCL .NET Json Parser

15 Feb 2016 by Ahmed Amer Jaf

Fast n Easy Way to parse Json data

Audio Pitch Shifter

2 Mar 2016 by ahmet_uzun

Audio pitch shifter application using the CSCore library

Code Assistance Feature in Visual Studio 2015

4 May 2016 by Akhil Mittal

In this section of the series I’ll cover how development with Visual Studio 2015 can increase your productivity to n times and enables you to write cleaner and more optimized code.

Code Analyzers in Visual Studio 2015

6 May 2016 by Akhil Mittal

In this article, we’ll cover another interesting and very useful featureof Visual Studio 2015: Live Static Code Analysis.

Renaming Assistance in Visual Studio 2015

9 May 2016 by Akhil Mittal

Renaming assistance in Visual Studio 2015

Code Refactoring in Visual Studio 2015

10 May 2016 by Akhil Mittal

In this article I show how you can leverage the capability of Visual Studio 2015 in optimizing your code.

BreakPoint Configuration and New Error List in Visual Studio 2015

25 May 2016 by Akhil Mittal

This article covers the debugging improvements that Visual Studio 2015 has come up with.

Tool Window Support for LINQ and Lambda, PerfTip and Diagnostics Tool Window in Visual Studio 2015

14 Jun 2016 by Akhil Mittal

This article will cover other debugging improvements of VisualStudio 2015 like the tool window support for LINQ and Lambda expressions, the newperftips, and the new diagnostic tool window.

Create API with ASP.NET Core (Day2): Creating API in ASP.NET Core

8 May 2017 by Akhil Mittal

How to create API with ASP.NET Core

Learning Entity Framework (Day 2): Code First Approach and Migrations in Microsoft .NET Entity Framework

28 Sep 2018 by Akhil Mittal

Code First Approach and Migrations in Microsoft .NET Entity Framework

How can I get a list of all preprecoesor directives and their values ? specifically #define

24 Jan 2017 by Albert Holguin

You can do simple pragma messages/warnings... probably simpler than spilling all the contents of every pre-processor definition in a large project.#ifdef SOMEVAR #pragma message("SOMEVAR is defined here")#else #pragma message("SOMEVAR is NOT defined here")#endifPragma message[^]

ChartPoints

16 Dec 2017 by aleksey_m_t

MSVS2015 chart view trace extension

Sprache.Calc: Building Yet Another Expression Evaluator

9 Mar 2019 by AlexeyYakovlev

This paper demonstrates a technique of building Sprache parsers using grammar inheritance.

MicroService4Net - Create Micro Services Easily with C#

14 Apr 2016 by Alon Lek

Create a simple self hosted Web API service that runs as console and as service in just 2 minutes

Windows-service

TPL: Producer Consumer Pattern - Thread Safe Queue Collection

24 Jul 2016 by Ameet Parse

Solving Producer Consumer Problem - Thread Safe Data Access for Shared Data

How to update Publisher from None to XYZ in VSTO C# Excel 2013 Add-in?

31 Jul 2015 by amitjoshi_87

I have created one excel 2013 add-ins project using vs2012 vsto with c#.I have set Publisher name to XXXXXXX-XXXXX-XXXX Inc.Also I have also added digital signature of my company with same Publisher name to XXXXXXX-XXXXX-XXXX Inc.At the time of installation always I get publisher...

Filtering datagridview date from->to

28 Nov 2017 by an0ther1

As per the MSDN documentation - DataColumn.Expression Property (System.Data)[^] When filtering using Date values you need to surround the value with # or single quotes depending on the data provider. Additionally, your Text boxes have a string value that you are using to represent a date. If...

How to read data from a Excel Sheet in VSTO ?

20 Jan 2014 by Andreas Gieriet

How about...

On Convex Polytopes, Collision Detection, and the Simplex Method

7 Jun 2016 by Andreas Michael Kreuzer

This article is about collision detection for convex polytopes using the simplex method.

ANNT : Convolutional neural networks

28 Oct 2018 by Andrew Kirillov

The article demonstrates usage of ANNT library for creating convolutional ANNs and applying them to image classification tasks.

artificial-intelligence

WPF Runtime Localization

11 Aug 2018 by Andrew Wood

A WPF localization solution with runtime updating and design-time support in Visual Studio

"Xxx.ipdb"': permission denied in visual studio 2015, how to solve ?

20 Jun 2019 by Andrey Chertov

I had this problem when migrated to the new PC where I decided to keep all my stuff on the Google Drive. So I built successfully the debug version. But when tried to build the Release, all of a sudden had this error: 1>g:\my drive\...\proj_globals.cpp : fatal error C1083: Cannot open compiler...

Targeting Android Apps on x86- and ARM-Based Devices with Visual Studio 2015

1 Dec 2015 by Android on Intel

Targeting Android Apps on x86- and ARM-Based Devices with Visual Studio 2015

QQ: Create Virtual Directory in VS2015

15 Oct 2015 by Andy Lanng

Hi,I usually set up all my projects in VS2013 the same way:Say I have a project for www.XYZ.com:1: Edit hosts file:2: Add "127.0.0.1 dev.XYZ.MyCompanyName.com"3: In WebApp properties under Web:4: Use Local IIS5: Project URL set to "http://dev.XYZ.MyCompanyName.com"6: Hit...

Developing back-ends with Enterlib.NET and WebAPI

11 Jul 2017 by Ansel Castro

Develop SOLID back-ends exposed through a REST API with ODATA support and DTO mapping using Enterlib.NET.

I need an easy & free web application, is azure too much ?

31 Jan 2017 by Ashwin. Shetty

Look for mean stack, it is not OS dependent, it's all javascript nor does have any license fee. You can host it free on openshift cloudYoutube does have day one tutorial to get you started.Openshift : OpenShift Online (Next Gen) Developer Preview[^]

Error when publishing by file system. No issue if deployed by deploy file.

1 Jun 2018 by atul sharma 5126

If trying to publish the website with file system (ftp), then the following error shows up on running of website: (website works perfect if deploy file used for publishing) Server Error in application Object reference not set to an instance of an object [NullReferenceException: Object...

Dive into Microservices Architecture - Part I

31 Oct 2018 by Aydin Homay

Internet of Things requires fully decentralized platforms which can be developed, deployed, discovered, and requested more easily.

Image Processing

6 Dec 2015 by Bilal Çalım

Log transform, negative transform, power-law transform, gray transform, histogram stretching, drawing histogram, histogram equalization

Using Telecom V&H Coordinates In C#

27 Oct 2015 by Bill Menees

AT&T’s vertical and horizontal coordinates can be used to calculate the latitude and longitude for rate centers and wire centers as well as the distances between them.

How to remve toolstripdropdownbutton.dropdwonitems dynamically?

17 Sep 2019 by BillWoodruff

A different approach: I have deliberately used multiple checks for valid names; in production code, I'd use try/catch. private void RemoveDDownMenuItem(MenuStrip mnuStrip, string menuItemName, string ddownMenuItemName) { if (! mnuStrip.Items.ContainsKey(menuItemName)) { // throw...

Sound of mouse click and hover

10 Nov 2017 by blueye89

Hello to all, I have two buttons: 1. Start System Asterisk Sound button which plays system asterisk sound: Private Sub btnSystemAsteriskSound_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles btnSystemAsteriskSound.Click My.Computer.Audio.PlaySystemSound(System.Media.SystemSounds.Asterisk)...

C++ Object Relational Mapping (ORM)- Eating the Bun - Part 1 of N

20 Apr 2019 by BrainlessLabs.com, sibani.p

Creating a simple ORM for C++ on-top of SQL database

How do I check null date

22 Jul 2018 by Bryian Tan

You can use the IsDBNull function to check if the column contain any non-null value. Here is an example on how to do that. By the way what the For loop doing? Dim FDT As String Dim fdtIndex As Integer For I = 0 To LEN - 1 If LvMasterReader.Read() Then '... '... fdtIndex =...

VS 2015 has no reference to microsoft.office.interop.excel.application

2 Aug 2019 by CandaceJ

Hi I am attempting to compile a project but its missing the Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Application reference. When going to Add References I cannot seem to find it. If Office is installed should the reference not automatically be in the list? How can I get it into the list? I'm running...

Image OCR and Document Conversion using the LEADTOOLS SDK

1 Apr 2016 by Carey Payette

The problem I am looking to solve while evaluating the LEADTOOLS SDK is to use a photo of a hard copy page of text taken with my phone, have it processed and displayed in the document viewer, then have it converted to Word format so that it can be easily edited.

Insert data into SQL, getting an error I don't understand why! ?

22 Jun 2016 by casper_mystic@yahoo.com

Your error is here:Dim myNewEntry As New SqlCommand(("INSERT INTO SCOUTINFO (FIRSTNAME, LASTNAME) values('" & txtFirstName.Text & "'), ('" & txtLastName.Text & "'"), myConn)My fix:Dim myNewEntry As New SqlCommand(("INSERT INTO SCOUTINFO (FIRSTNAME,...

C# Merge Excel Sheets into one Sheet

15 Oct 2014 by chadchen

Hello Expert:I have Excel reports generated by application. the format is xls.Due to row limits, it will split the content into multiple sheets if the total number of records is bigger than 65536.I am trying to copy all records from each sheet and merge them into one sheet then save...

QuickPlot Utility

9 Apr 2018 by charles922

Easy to Use Plotting Utility

AngularJS and REST API - Part 2

19 Apr 2018 by charles922

AngularJS and REST API Tutorial - Part 2

entity-framework

AngularJS and REST API: Part 3

27 Apr 2018 by charles922

AngularJS and REST API Tutorial: Part 3

Math Function Tutor: Part 2

22 May 2018 by charles922

Math Function Tutor, Part 2

Math Function Tutor: Part 3

31 May 2018 by charles922

Math Function Tutor: Part 3

Palindromes - Fun with Words: Part 1

18 Jun 2018 by charles922

Games/Fun with Programming

AngularJS and REST API: Part 4

12 Jul 2018 by charles922

AngularJS and REST API Tutorial - Part 4

Introduction to Numerical Methods

30 Jul 2018 by charles922

Introduction to Numerical Methods and Updated Polynomial Class

Clipping Plane in WPF 3D

14 Aug 2018 by charles922

Demonstrate Clipping Plane in WPF 3D

Clipping Plane in WPF 3D, Part 2

21 Aug 2018 by charles922

Demonstrate Clipping Plane in WPF 3D, Part 2

Clipping Plane in WPF 3D - Part 3

5 Feb 2019 by charles922

Demonstrate Clipping Plane in WPF 3D - Part 3

Orbital Mechanics Introduction

23 Dec 2018 by charles922

Introduction to Orbital Mechanics - 2 Body Problem

Soma Cube Solver

23 Mar 2019 by charles922

WPF 3D Graphics Program to solve Soma Cube Puzzle

Facing error of mysql query not proper check in manual

23 Mar 2016 by CHill60

Your query should be string chkUser = "Select * FROM [User] where Email=@UserName AND Password=@Password;";Use command parameters to provide the values for @UserName and @Password You've said you know about this so I haven't provided an example.Note the space before AND

How do I update access table fields

8 Jul 2018 by CHill60

Firstly - you have a syntax errors in your SQL... "UPDATE EMP_MASTER ) " Try removing all of those extraneous brackets and putting in some extra commas UPDATE EMP_MASTER SET Sap_No= @Sap_No, CPF_No= @CPF_No, Name = @Name, Designation= @Designation, DesigIndex= @DesigIndex, CompJoining=...

Select query by splitted string is it possible?

7 Apr 2021 by CHill60

In theory it is possible - try searching using your favourite search engine with Quote: MS Access Split string into multiple records You will need to write some VBA to do this. However, that would not be a good solution. A better solution is for...

How to set the program to multi byte character set using vs 2015

28 Feb 2016 by chimcham

Please help me how to set my program to multi byte character set using VS 2015.. I'm using C#.What I have tried:I can't find the Configuration Properties > Character Set in this Link.. https://studiofreya.com/2014/11/25/character-set-encoding-in-visual-studio-2013/

Const variable name with katakana dot

29 Feb 2016 by chimcham

Hi Good Day,I would like to ask.. I met this code and I tried to run in VS 2013 in it is okay..public const string my●var = " "; But when I tried to run in VS 2015, Please help. Thanks.What I have tried:Already researched about const variable name with dot.. but...

How should I share the program exe file on clients, that is written using C# and LINQ to SQL?

4 Mar 2019 by Chris Copeland

In addition, if you've built your application to connect to and interact with a database, I suspect there might also be dependency libraries associated with it (could be *.dll in your output directory.) If you don't also copy these across your application will not be able to load the required...

FORTRAN Interoperability with .NET: Exchanging Complex Data

13 May 2016 by Christ Akkermans

This article in the FORTRAN Interoperability with .NET series explains how to exchange complex data between C# and FORTRAN.

In VS2015 SDK msxml2.h doesnt contain the domdocument40

10 Jun 2020 by Coder969

I am trying convert some of old project from vs2005 to vs2015 . Below is the error I am seeing while building it in 2015 . I dont see any problem while building in vs2005 error C2065: 'DOMDocument40': undeclared identifier Below is the code. I am getting the error at the CreateInstance ...

Clsid_domdocument40 undeclared identifier in vs2015

10 Jun 2017 by Coder969

Hi all, We are migrating our projects from from vs2005 to vs2015 . As part of this migration we also want to remove msxml4 and use msxml6 . To use MSXML6 I am importing the msxml6.dll and removed msxml4.dll in my code.But when I built it I am getting errors saying below three identifiers are...

Ad1.lib not found in vs2015 (vc++ project)

22 Jun 2017 by Coder969

We are migrating our project from vs2005 to vs2015 . In one of the project we are using Ad1.lib .When I build that project in vs2015 getting the error saying Ad1.lib not found . In vs2005 this lib was present in " C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\PlatformSDK\Lib " but I...

Declaration of template <class __declspec(dllexport) windowclass> giving an error in vs2015

28 Jun 2017 by Coder969

We are migrating our projects from vs2005 to VS2015 .In one of the project we are using below template declaration template In 2005,it is building successfully but in vs2015 getting below error. 'WindowClass': illegal type for non-type template...

Loadtypelib error in vs2015

4 Jul 2017 by Coder969

We are converting our projects from vs2005 to vs2015. We able to clear the build error but now we are getting runtime error at LoadTypeLib function call Error is "Error loading type library/DLL" Below is the code HRESULT LoadTypeInfoFromThisModule(REFIID riid, ITypeInfo **ppti) { *ppti = 0;...

In VS which kind of new project the main function has parameters?

2 Dec 2016 by CPallini

While creating the project, in application settings, you may get rid of any additional stuff: remove it (for instance precompiled headers) and then select empty project.Then you may add any header or source file you wish. You have, at least, to add a source file (say main.cpp) and type into it...

I want to migrate project developed in visual basic 6.0 to visual studio 2015

11 Jan 2018 by CPallini

Either Leave it as it stands (requires no effort!). Rewrite it from scratch in VB.NET or, better, in C#. .NET languages and VB6 are worlds apart. By the way, just Googling you may find tons of info on this very topic.

How to setup C++11 standard in VS2015?

2 Apr 2019 by CPallini

This page might interest you: Standards version switches in the compiler | C++ Team Blog[^].

Caching via system.web.httpruntime.cache with file dependency is not refreshing

9 Nov 2018 by dada2010

Hello everybody i have problems with some code : I try to cache some value from a config file in the global.asax, with a timer. The global goal of the project is to check some data and push messages for all webusers (via SignalR) every 20s. i add dependency on a file, but when updating this...

Junk Drawer

7 Mar 2016 by dale.newman

Importing Excel & Delimited Files into a Junk Database

Cfg-NET

9 Feb 2017 by dale.newman

An alternative to .NET Configuration Handler

GIT push is using different email account

6 Jul 2022 by dan!sh

I was trying to create a little repository for code samples so I created an account at GIT hub. I have VS 2015 so I had to install GIT Hub extension to it. When I push the code from VS2015, I see that it is pushed under my another account with...

GIT push is using different email account

6 Jul 2022 by dan!sh

Setting on team explorer window allowed me to edit the email and user details.

In VS2015 SDK msxml2.h doesnt contain the domdocument40

10 Jun 2020 by Dattatraya Mengudale

Just do 2 steps as below.. 1. Specify header as #include 2. Rename to only as below, // Format the XML. This requires a style sheet MSXML::IXMLDOMDocument2Ptr loadXML; hr =...

Deploying a (externally) signed dll

20 Dec 2013 by Dave Kreskowiak

Your question doesn't make any sense. Why do you need that certificate to deploy a .DLL?? Where I work, we deploy stuff that's signed all the time, without doing anything special at all with a certificate. You just build the installer to put the files where you want them. That's...

How do I choose where to install a published VS2015 project

12 Jan 2016 by Dave Kreskowiak

Publish is the most restrictive way to repackage an application. It takes away all of your options, including the ability to pick in which folder to install the application.If you're going to create an installer for your application I suggest using a third party tool, such as Wix Toolset,...

[Help] why memory leakage during managed automation object creation / destruction ?

25 Aug 2016 by Dave Kreskowiak

Probably because you're looking in Task Manager for memory usage of a .NET app. Don't. It's lying to you.Task Manager shows how much memory is RESERVED for your app, not how much it's actually using.For better memory statistics, use PerfMon and the .NET Memory counters or a dedicated...

Publish more project from solution

30 Aug 2017 by Dave Kreskowiak

It's not there because it doesn't exist. There is no such thing as "Publish All" in Visual Studio. You have to publish your projects one-by-one. You could also make your own version of a "Publish All". You can get some ideas from these[^].

How do I discard a draft version of an article?

8 Jan 2018 by Dave Kreskowiak

Post the problem in the Bugs and Suggestions[^] forum.

Openfiledialog problem with re-click

28 Dec 2019 by Dave Kreskowiak

Where did you define "openFileDialog1" and where is the code that disposes the instance you created? Your code seems to be structured wrong. You should have a method that creates and shows the dialog, determines if there is a file picked, disposes the dialog, then returns the filename that was...

How to export resources file using file stream C#

25 May 2020 by Dave Kreskowiak

Seriously? Look at your code and the filepath you are writing the bytes to. All you have to do is supply a different filepath. That's it! But, you would have known this had YOU written the code instead of copy'n'paste coding.

Asynchronous Multicast Callbacks with Inter-Thread Messaging

25 Jan 2019 by David Lafreniere

Simplify passing data between threads using this multithreaded, portable C++ asynchronous callback framework

multi-threading

C++ State Machine with Asynchronous Multicast Delegates

23 Oct 2019 by David Lafreniere

A framework combining state machines with asynchronous multicast delegates

C++ State Machine with Threads

26 Jan 2019 by David Lafreniere

A framework combining state machines and multicast asynchronous callbacks

Beginner Tutorial: A Unity 5 Number Guessing Game

25 Oct 2015 by defwebserver

In this tutorial, we will cover creating a simple number guessing game. The user will guess a number between 1 and 10.

VS 2015 android emulator error

15 Mar 2017 by DELPIN SUSAI RAJ

hi... i think your system configuration is low. you will try to use visual studio for android emulator or xamarin android player.Ram: upto 8gbprocessor: upto core i3and also troubleshoot hyper-V.

Insert data into SQL, getting an error I don't understand why! ?

22 Jun 2016 by Depotdad80

I'm a new coder, working with inserting a first and last name into a DB table. I thought I had this pretty well thought out, however I'm getting the following error.An unhandled exception of type 'System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException' occurred in System.Data.dllAdditional information:...

Getting Type Mismatch Error while passing Array of Interfaces from C#(VSTO) to VBA through IDispatch interface.

2 Mar 2015 by Dhiraj V

Hi,I am facing issues like Type Mismatch while passing Array of interfaces from .NET to VBA and vice versa using VSTO technology.My requirement is that ComInterfaceType needs to be InterfaceIsIDispatch.My Interface definition is somewhat like this [ComVisible(true)] ...

Theano Machine Learning on a GPU on Windows 10

30 Nov 2016 by Dino Konstantopoulos

Running Theano with an Nvidia 1070 GPU on Windows 10, with CUDA 8 and Visual Studio 2015

Visual Studio Design Patterns Add-in/Extension

3 May 2017 by dmihailescu

A Visual Studio add-in that inserts some commonly known OO patterns into your working project and searches your highlights online.

How Boxing and Unboxing Works – Simulation Model

10 Apr 2016 by Dmitriy Gakh

One new method of explaining of boxing and unboxing

.NET-Compiler-Platform

Lesson to Learn: Introduction to Genetic Algorithms

15 Dec 2018 by Dmitriy Gakh

An introduction to Genetic Algorithms with brief reference to biology and example of finding one solution for complex mathematical equation

machine-learning