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"Eliot Coweye" <cia_deviator@lycos.com> wrote in message 
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> Everytime I approach a girl, she'll just say "nerd" and kick me into my
> balls. This is bad and painful.
>
> So please tell me, HOW can I improve my sex-appeal with a good Java
> program?

    Lookup genetic programming.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_programming
http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/research/genprog/gp2faq/gp2faq.html

    What you'll want to do is to programmatically enter in every strategy 
you've tried at hooking up with a girl. You'll need to have some metric for 
measuring success, and enter those in for each strategy as well. Then run 
one step of simulation (i.e. one generation) so that the strategies will 
have mutated slightly, with the strategies that have performed the best 
mutating the least (thus, on average, your strategies have become "better").

    Examine what strategies were produced, and go out and try them. Measure 
their success, come back and enter in their scores, and progress another 
generation. Repeat until you are satisfied with the level of success you are 
receiving.

    The advantages of genetic programming are that it's a viable tool for 
when you have no idea where to start looking for a good strategy.

    The disadvantages are that typically it takes a very long before the 
best strategy "evolves" from your initial pool of random strategies.

    - Oliver