alt Hacker NewsA good deal of the field of Operations Research (OR) is about getting a good solution to NP-hard problems anyway. It is fun!
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nazgul17 • yesterday at 9:32 PM
My 5 years in school timetabling say: 100% agree!
A good deal of the field of Operations Research (OR) is about getting a good solution to NP-hard problems anyway. It is fun!
My 5 years in school timetabling say: 100% agree!
OR has some very interesting algorithms for very interesting problems. I don't do research on it anymore, but going to OR conferences was always interesting. Good mix of practitioners, researchers and end users. I'm way behind SOTA now, but I have a soft spot for evolutionary algorithms.