[HN Gopher] (Ab)using general search algorithms on dynamic optim...
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       (Ab)using general search algorithms on dynamic optimization
       problems (2023)
        
       I wrote this blog back in 2023 but since then I became a frequent
       lurker on HN and decided to repost the blog here. For me, writing
       it was about connecting the dots between dynamic optimization
       techniques I've studied as an economist and the more general search
       algorithms studied in CS.
        
       Author : h45x1
       Score  : 28 points
       Date   : 2025-02-17 15:29 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | pvg wrote:
       | Show HN is for things you've made others can try which excludes
       | blog posts, take al look at
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
       | 
       | You can just take Show HN out of the title, though or repost
       | without it.
        
         | h45x1 wrote:
         | Thank you for the tip, will do so. I thought I saw some
         | interactive blogs under Show HN, but maybe I'm mistaken. The
         | guidelines are indeed explicit. (Tried to do so but was a bit
         | too late, I guess, because the edit option is not there.
         | Reposting doesn't seem to work, probably need to wait some
         | time.)
        
           | dang wrote:
           | No worries--it's a great blog post! We'll put it in the
           | second-chance pool (https://news.ycombinator.com/pool,
           | explained at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308),
           | so it will get a random placement on HN's front page.
        
       | joe_the_user wrote:
       | Related: a few years ago, various people were exploring locality
       | sensitive hashing as an alternative to neural networks(SLIDE : In
       | Defense of Smart Algorithms over Hardware Acceleration for Large-
       | Scale Deep Learning Systems [1]).
       | 
       | This never took off. I don't if it didn't work or it was a matter
       | of the "bitter lesson" ideology pushing people to _prefer_
       | hardware acceleration _over_ smart algorithms. I would note that
       | smart algorithms require hiring (more)smart people and not only
       | can hardware acceleration be cheaper but hardware and data can be
       | more reliably added than smart people, who are short supply.
       | 
       | [1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.03129
        
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