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Genetic Algorithms in Elixir: Chapter5 pag82 ebook-1.0.2 Hanging of "tournament_no-duplicates"

The function tournament_no_duplicates keeps hanging, because it will never reach n winners.
In a selection of n chromosomes you can never have n winners.
Maybe you will ever reach n-(tournsize-1) winners.
So I propose a different function.

def tournament_no_duplicates(problem, population, n, tournsize) do
  set =
    tournament(problem, population, n, tournsize)
    |> MapSet.new()
    |> MapSet.to_list()
# you get an error in crossover if this selection is not even.
# therefore I delete the weakest of the list
  if rem(length(set), 2) == 0 do
    set
  else
    Enum.sort_by(set, &problem.fitness_function(&1), :desc)
    List.delete_at(set, -1)
  end
end

Your selection could go to [ ],
therefore the population must be much bigger then the number of generations you run.
Yet you can reach good results.

I added this to the first part of evolve() in Genetic:

if population == [] do
  IO.write("\n\nYou should make your population bigger\n\n")
  raise "Watch it! Population is empty"
end

best = hd(population)
IO.inspect(best, label: "\n\nCurrent best:")
IO.write("Generation: #{generation}")

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