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1 | 1 | Welcome to NEAT-Python's documentation!
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| -**NOTE**: The examples are currently being moved into a separate repository (and |
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| -Python package) from the NEAT library itself. During this time if you use the |
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| -code from the GitHub repository you may find that examples are missing and/or |
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9 | 4 | NEAT (NeuroEvolution of Augmenting Topologies) is a method developed by Kenneth O. Stanley for evolving arbitrary neural
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| -networks. NEAT-Python is a Python implementation of NEAT. |
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| -The core NEAT implementation is currently pure Python with no dependencies other than the Python standard library. |
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| -The `visualize` module requires graphviz, NumPy, and matplotlib, but it is not necessary to install these packages unless |
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| -you want to make use of these visualization utilities. Some of the examples also make use of other libraries. |
| 5 | +networks. NEAT-Python is a pure Python implementation of NEAT, with no dependencies other than the Python standard library. |
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| -If you need an easy performance boost, JIT-enabled `PyPy |
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| -<http://pypy.org>`_ does a fantastic job, and may give you a ~10x speedup over CPython. Once version 1.0 is out, |
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| -Built-in C and OpenCL network implementations will be added to speed up applications for which network evaluation is the primary bottleneck. |
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| -Support for HyperNEAT and other extensions to NEAT will also be added once the fundamental NEAT implementation is |
| 7 | +Support for HyperNEAT and other extensions to NEAT is planned once the fundamental NEAT implementation is |
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| -**Please note:** the package and its usage may change significantly while it is still in alpha status. Updating to |
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| -the most recent version is almost certainly going to break your code until the version number approaches 1.0. |
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26 | 10 | For further information regarding general concepts and theory, please see `Selected Publications
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27 | 11 | <http://www.cs.ucf.edu/~kstanley/#publications>`_ on Stanley's website, or his recent `AMA on Reddit
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28 | 12 | <https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/3xqcrk/im_ken_stanley_artificial_intelligence_professor>`_.
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