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The Traveling Salesdog Problem

22 pointsby wespiser_2018last Tuesday at 7:30 PM5 commentsview on HN

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jdw64today at 1:57 AM

One thing I always feel while programming is that the important question is often not what to model, but what to exclude from the model.

In this case, he excluded the dog’s veto behavior. But if you tried to model that too, it would also be interesting.

It really is a difficult profession.

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wespiser_2018last Tuesday at 7:31 PM

Author Here: I wrote this about using numerical optimization to solve problems in my daily life. I'm interested if anyone else has done the same, and what worked for them!