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I’ve been working on a code in C to solve the Travelling Salesman Problem using Genetic Algorithms. In the past this problem has been attacked using brute force, simply trying every possible passage. Yet as the size of a dataset rises, the computation time increases exponentially with this method, such that a thousand points can […]

Today I set out to clean my lizard’s enclosure. Being a thoroughly boring process, I got to observing the crickets left at the bottom of his cage. They were, as one would expect, following the age old rule for “not very smart” animals: up is out. To empty out these errant critters, I open […]

Every year the ESP program at MIT hosts classes for highschool students. Splash is held in the fall, at a time generally assumed to be thanksgiving break. I’ve attended the last 3 years, and loved it. This year however, I’m teaching a class with a friend entitled “The Calculus of Physics”. It will be awsome, […]