Cluster is Done, next project

I  made it about halfway through Cluster Swarm before getting to overwhelmed by work, friends, and readings. So I took a break from it, and never really got back to it. All the pieces are there, all the ideas, it's just a matter of putting the pieces together. However, I feel like my time would be better spent on other projects.

A few things I've considered, a Budgeting program that I could use to do my budgeting, (I do it in notepad right now), I could make it entirely in Java to make it transportable, I could make it customizable, and also include plenty of features that would be useful. I could model the Towers of Hanoi, and perhaps use what I've learned about genetic algorithms and evolutionary programming to evolve strategies and solutions to the towers. Although I'd probably restrict it to n <= 4 disks for the sake of managing bits. One way I thought about doing it was to use 30 bits to represent a solution to n=4 disks, each bit being able to be one of the three towers. I could initialize random bits to a few, then run it through a validity checker, essentially my fitness function, to see how well it does and to make sure it doesnt place a larger disk on a smaller disk. and then could add in how close to the optimal solution it was to determine it's fitness.

I also thought about representing the towers and their moves as a Grammar.

S -> aC | bC
A -> aB | aC
B -> bA | bC
C -> cA | cB | cƛ
ƛ -> null (end of moves)

You could simply build up possible moves, their validity would be checked by running them through a simulation of the towers, and then calculate how well they did. From their you could breed good solutions with other ones using crossover and mutation, or possibly use some type of neural net to 'train' a program to have tendancies to lean towards one change from one move to another. I'm not entirely sure on if I'm going to do this project yet or not. It's still up in the air.