Differentiation

In reading the DeLanda essays on Deleuze, both the case for modeling software and the essay for Deleuze and genetic algorithm, DeLanda seems to reintroduce the idea of a dynamical system consistent with basic notions of thermodynamics, mathematical physics, change, etc. But when he gets to the very idea of genetic algorithm what does he actually say about algorithm? What for him is aglorithmic and where is it operative in his discussion? Now, compare this, also with Wolfram's essay in which he discusses complexity in terms of algorithm or primitive computational rules.
Here's a question i'd like you to answer by Tuesday: both authors discuss complexity and transformation and change -- in a sense, they both point to the notion of intensity as a point in which one system flips over into a different organization -- but what is the difference between the way in which they present this?
Think of how this relates to the quesiton of the dsicrete and the continuous.