Evolutionary-Algorithm

Things to do (mainly of a refactor nature)

• commit messages should be more informative than a few words
• refactor constructors in Individual so that one calls the other which does all the work
• refactor the reproduce method into: getRandomSplits(numSplits), that returns a list of split point, and sliceAndDice(splits, parent1, parent2), which returns a list of two children
• refactor whoLives() using: Collections.swap() to manage the individuals eligible for a tournament (where previous survivors are not eligible although previous participants are); see the problem with population.remove(winner); each tournament of a given size should consist of distinct individuals (i.e., whereas individuals can reproduce multiple times, they cannot compete in a single tournament multiple times); but note: an individual cannot reproduce with itself
• testing: adopt adversarial mindset for creating tests
• consolidate use of Random so that within a class (or even across entire application) only one instance of Random is created and used; this is helpful for running controlled experiments where one may want to repeate the exact same sequence of random numbers