It's the late tech meeting followup! We had 16 people at last week's tech meeting.
Kenneth Graves walked us through his three versions of a Kokuro solver, starting with a simple but inefficient brute force approach and ending with one with optimizations and heuristics to make it nice and speedy. We also learned that the Perl6-ish Moose.pm, while making it much more convenient to write object code, adds a significant amount of overhead to each method call, which is prohibitive for a non-interactive script like Kenneth's that does a huge number of method calls. Continuing the theme, Bill Ricker then showed us his script for solving doublets, aka word ladders. We talked about the benefits and drawbacks of a depth-first search versus a breadth-first search, and also why some Unix dictionaries contain lots of questionable words. Our next meeting will be on Tuesday, November 14. Let me know if you'd like to give a presentation! Ronald _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
