Comments on: A Wiki proof http://bit-player.org/2009/a-wiki-proof An amateur's outlook on computation and mathematics. Thu, 17 May 2012 09:43:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Kareem Carr http://bit-player.org/2009/a-wiki-proof#comment-2258 Kareem Carr Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:18:26 +0000 http://bit-player.org/?p=491#comment-2258 I participated in one of the polymaths in a small way when I wrote a program, a genetic algorithm based optimizer. Others were approaching the problem from the direction of linear programming. For a while there, it was a fun three way race between the human solvers, the linear programmers and my genetic algorithm of which I was running as many as 19 instances at a time. I don't want to set off the spam filter otherwise I would link to some of my solutions which are on my blog. However, anybody who is interested can go see them. Speaking from the inside, it was a very fun experience with a sense of being at the cutting edge. Some people think this will be a major way of doing mathematics in the future. Supplemented with more everyday ways of doing mathematics, this would be a welcome development. I participated in one of the polymaths in a small way when I wrote a program, a genetic algorithm based optimizer. Others were approaching the problem from the direction of linear programming. For a while there, it was a fun three way race between the human solvers, the linear programmers and my genetic algorithm of which I was running as many as 19 instances at a time.

I don’t want to set off the spam filter otherwise I would link to some of my solutions which are on my blog. However, anybody who is interested can go see them.

Speaking from the inside, it was a very fun experience with a sense of being at the cutting edge. Some people think this will be a major way of doing mathematics in the future. Supplemented with more everyday ways of doing mathematics, this would be a welcome development.

]]>