1. A perpetual analytics system that provides a genetic algorithm for selecting an algorithm and feature set to solve a problem, comprising: a computing device including: an evolutionary computing engine for processing data encoded as chromosomes, wherein each chromosome encodes an algorithm and a feature set; a domain knowledge store that maintains a plurality of algorithms and a plurality of features; a system for applying a generation of chromosomes to a set of data to provide a set of results, the set of results including a set of phenotypes, wherein each chromosome of the set of chromosomes is translated into the set of phenotypes by applying the algorithm and the feature set; and a fitness function, based at least on a search efficiency using the set of phenotypes, for evaluating the set of results to rate a performance of each chromosome in the set of chromosomes; wherein the evolutionary computing engine is adapted to evolve a subset of the set of chromosomes into a new generation of chromosomes.