Interesting. I haven't seen much in this space since Lee Spector's "push" more than 20 years ago (http://faculty.hampshire.edu/lspector/push.html). I did see a mention of Push in the FAQ but it would be very interesting to compare this in detail. If I get it correctly Zyme programs are evolved on the bytecode level whereas Push's stack architecture is designed to be evolvable directly at the syntactic level? A head-to-head comparison / benchmark would be super interesting.
Completely unrelated (and apologies to the OP), Zyme is also a name of a winery near Verona in Italy that makes really unusual, complex and very tasty reds. Beautiful facilities as well. If you are ever in the region, give it a visit - https://www.zyme.it/en/
Thanks! Since the language is still in its early stages of being able to evolve programs, I don't have many examples to share yet. I didn’t realize when I began but developing the language itself was just the beginning - I hadn't anticipated how much work would still be needed on tuning, development tools, and implementing the genetic programming framework before getting concrete results.
"While I've observed bloat in Zyme, I don’t think this is driving the increase in mutation resistance and survival rate"
This is evident in the human genome.
Sadly not. When I was developing Zyme, I was thinking a lot about the molecular components of a cell and how one might translate them into a virtual machine. I was particularly inspired by enZYMEs.
Interesting. I haven't seen much in this space since Lee Spector's "push" more than 20 years ago (http://faculty.hampshire.edu/lspector/push.html). I did see a mention of Push in the FAQ but it would be very interesting to compare this in detail. If I get it correctly Zyme programs are evolved on the bytecode level whereas Push's stack architecture is designed to be evolvable directly at the syntactic level? A head-to-head comparison / benchmark would be super interesting.
Completely unrelated (and apologies to the OP), Zyme is also a name of a winery near Verona in Italy that makes really unusual, complex and very tasty reds. Beautiful facilities as well. If you are ever in the region, give it a visit - https://www.zyme.it/en/
I love this idea, it's thought provoking and I want to play
Is there a repository of examples or experiments built with Zyme? Curious to see what has been explored so far
I think it could be fun to focus on visual experiments; shader-like programs as a way to easily explore different outputs
Thanks! Since the language is still in its early stages of being able to evolve programs, I don't have many examples to share yet. I didn’t realize when I began but developing the language itself was just the beginning - I hadn't anticipated how much work would still be needed on tuning, development tools, and implementing the genetic programming framework before getting concrete results.
Doing => to set variables seems like extra work from just equals. Hopefully it’s kind of optional like it is in R.
"While I've observed bloat in Zyme, I don’t think this is driving the increase in mutation resistance and survival rate" This is evident in the human genome.
wow this is so creative!
Is it named after the drug in Deus Ex
Sadly not. When I was developing Zyme, I was thinking a lot about the molecular components of a cell and how one might translate them into a virtual machine. I was particularly inspired by enZYMEs.
I just realized that that's what the oeigin of the deus ex drug must be as well lol
Zyme is an ancient Greek word that means leaven, a lot of organizations and companies use it
interesting idea to say the least.