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> “As far as I can tell, I’m the only person who is actually interested in this problem,” Vanderkam said.

For context, many people are interested in finding high-scoring Boggle boards, usually via simulated annealing, hillclimbing, or genetic algorithms. But so far as I can tell, I'm the only one interested in _proving_ that a particular board is best. Doing that was the new result here.

parent danvk 1 year ago

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