paper.ipynb notebook has all the explanations regarding Genetic Algorithms and how they are used to solve the Traveling Salesman Problem.
src/genetic.py file works as a library with the Points, Route and Population classes available to import in other files (such as the jupyter notebook above).
It is not recommended to run the algorithm within the jupyter notebook for performance and other visual reasons (just doesn't look nice).
On the binder, the plots, instead of updating, simply appear one under the the other. Please allow up to 5 minutes for the binder server to launch.
On your own machine, when running in the CLI, please ensure that that you remove jupyter=True and pass in animate=True for the plotting function.