Greetings, As for a title for the February Talk let's go with "Solving WordBrain - A Breadth First Search of a Problem With Great Depth"
Thanks! Should be fun. Looking forward to our January talk as well. Best Regards, Robert Stone On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 5:52 PM, G. Wade Johnson via Houston <[email protected] > wrote: > On Sun, 27 Dec 2015 13:35:03 -0600 > Robert Stone via Houston <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Greetings, > > > > A friend of mine is playing WordBrain ( > > https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wordbrain/id708600202?mt=8 ): > > > > [image: Inline image 1] > > > > While I'm not a big fan of word games, I do like computer science and > > I've been working on a Solver for this game. It's a fun exercise in > > Dijkstra that really gives you both a breadth first and depth first > > appreciation of the problem space. > > > > Anyway, I'm thinking of putting together a talk regarding the > > solution I'm working on, some background on solving these sorts of > > problems, and then some time for discussion on how we could improve > > the efficiency of my implementation. > > > > I don't think I'll have it ready in time for January's meeting but if > > there is interest February is certainly doable. Sound like fun? > > > Sounds like we have a topic for February. Send me a title for the > presentation and I'll put it on the list. > > G. Wade > > > Best Regards, > > Robert Stone > > > -- > The closer you get to the truth, the messier your sentence gets. > -- Paul Graham > _______________________________________________ > Houston mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/houston > Website: http://houston.pm.org/ >
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