>>6
I wrote many. One particular was an "aesthetic evaluator" that took large amounts of survey data according to what people thought was beautiful and attempted to determine if growth processes would result in aesthetically pleasing organisms.
The techniques we used were mostly agile programming.
>>7
No, it is mostly for food supply related.
>>8
Java, C++, Perl, Ruby, and some custom languages develop in house
>>10
We do. Genes work like save state bytes in NES games, some do nothing, some affect one thing, some affect multiple things, some act as checksum
>>11
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