Re: Programmers Contest: Fit pictures on a page
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Re: Programmers Contest: Fit pictures on a page

From: Dan Sommers <me@privacy.net>
Date: Thu Jun 30 2005 - 19:38:25 CEST

On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 13:09:02 -0400,
Peter Hansen <peter@engcorp.com> wrote:

> This problem is well suited to the abilities of genetic algorithms,
> and this would probably be an excellent way to learn more about them,
> even if you don't get the best solution.

There's some sort of irony or something in there about not writing the
best genetic algorithm, but I can't quite put my finger on it.

Regards,
Dan

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Dan Sommers
<http://www.tombstonezero.net/dan/>
Received on Thu Sep 29 16:40:21 2005