can download the learner I’ve just described from alchemy.cs .washington.edu. We christened it Alchemy to remind ourselves that, despite all its successes, machine learning is still in the alchemy stage of science. If you do download it, you’ll see that it includes a lot more than the basic algorithm I’ve described but also that it is still missing a few things I said the universal learner ought to have, like crossover. Nevertheless, let’s use the name Alchemy to refer to our candidate universal learner for simplicity.
