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Traveling Salesman Attack! (Hadoop and Genetic Algorithms)

Posted on October 10, 2011 by Brad

For one of my “coffee projects” (things I work on for about 20-30 minutes each morning to warm my brain up and stay amused), I wrote a genetic algorithm attack on the Traveling Salesman problem. Because I’m a Big Data … Continue reading →

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Playing with JRuby, Part 1

Posted on February 16, 2009 by Brad

As part of a new project, I’m experimenting with JRuby, to see (a) if the alleged performance gains are all that and (b) see how far the Java integration – especially interface implementation – can be pushed. On the performance … Continue reading →

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