[pm-h] Proposed Talk on "Solving WordBrain" - Gauging Interest

[Julian Brown]

Yes, please sounds like fun.

Julian

On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 5:43 AM, Mike Flannigan via Houston <houston at pm.org>
wrote:

>
> Yeah, that would be super cool.
> Programming strategy and algorithms are great topics.
>
> A web search turned up only a few hits.
>
>
> Mike
>
>
>
> On 12/27/2015 1:35 PM, Robert Stone via Houston wrote:
>
> Greetings,
>
> A friend of mine is playing WordBrain (
> <https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wordbrain/id708600202?mt=8>
> https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wordbrain/id708600202?mt=8 ):
>
>
>
> 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?
>
> Best Regards,
> Robert Stone
>
>
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