Post AzZHuOBRkhcomKEJ5k by robinhouston@mathstodon.xyz
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 (DIR) Post #AzZHuOBRkhcomKEJ5k by robinhouston@mathstodon.xyz
       2025-10-24T21:24:21Z
       
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       I love the feeling of going to bed leaving a search algorithm running. Will it have found anything by the time I wake up tomorrow? So exciting.
       
 (DIR) Post #AzZHuPNXJEtEU6tTZg by robinhouston@mathstodon.xyz
       2025-10-25T06:59:37Z
       
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       (It has not found anything.)
       
 (DIR) Post #AzZHuQE0AArD6pRNLs by robinhouston@mathstodon.xyz
       2025-10-25T09:50:58Z
       
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       But, having slept on it, I thought of a faster algorithm, which ran to completion in less than two seconds.
       
 (DIR) Post #AzZHuRIIBhsqQQSJg8 by massimolauria@mathstodon.xyz
       2025-10-25T12:36:03Z
       
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       @robinhouston Did you run the new faster algorithm on a search space you already explored, and you were sure it did not contain the desired object? No judgment, I would have done the same.
       
 (DIR) Post #AzZHuS21RgSmiFqpxQ by robinhouston@mathstodon.xyz
       2025-10-25T12:52:45Z
       
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       @massimolauria The slow algorithm hadn't completely explored the search space (and in fact had not found the optimal element). The faster algorithm exhausted the whole search space in a couple of seconds.
       
 (DIR) Post #AzZHwNXh6hVPMwaJLU by shironeko@fedi.tesaguri.club
       2025-10-25T12:56:52.032445Z
       
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       @robinhouston the brain is searching the meta space