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linking to a blog smells like rotting spam.... no votes for you.

(Incidentally, can Spam acutally rot?)

Actually they seem to be already at JGAP 3 RC1, ;)
The blog is already outdated ;)

But I do have time to comment on JGAP itself. I once used it to solve a complex problem that had been worked out by hand (incorrectly I might add) over the course of several days.

I picked up the library and in under four hours had a solution that could run in two minutes and give us the answer to a multivariate problem with nine different parameters. Best of all was that we could change the scoring function if we needed to change our circumstances and we would get a new answer in a few more minutes.

P.S. Come to think of it, I do have something to say about linking to a blog. If the blog had a good example, a review, or additional explanation above and beyond that on the page he/she was linking to then linking to a blog would be a positive thing and not a negative. If however it says basically the same thing as above or just provides a link to the final destination then that would be a waste of time.

Absolute rules like, "Don't link to a blog," are never correct :)