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SEP Wins TechPoint’s 2024 Innovation Service Partner of the Year Mira Award
SEP Recognized as Indiana’s Top Innovation Service Partner, Winning TechPoint’s Prestigious Mira Award Westfield, Indiana - SEP has been named the Innovation Service Partner of the Year by TechPoint at the 25th annual Mira Awards. The Mira Awards, Indiana’s largest…
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Last Time Previously, we looked at a technique for reducing the memory footprint of a heuristic search. We talked about why it was important to reduce the memory consumed by a search. Even if we move heaven and earth to reduce memory consumption, heuristic search is still prohibitively expensive in terms of time. Learning Goals This […]
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Trying Deltas For A Change
Last Time Last time we took a look at how improved bounds computation and child ordering can improve the performance of heuristic search algorithms. In particular, we saw how those techniques improved the performance of depth first search (or depth first branch & bound if you prefer) when applied to the TSP. Even though we […]
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The Importance of Consuming Search Results, Pancakes
Last Time Last time we looked at depth first search and how it could be applied to a simple optimization problem, the pancake problem. We decomposed the pancake stacking problem into some components are very important if you want to apply heuristic search: A goal test States Actions to move between states We then looked […]
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Flipping Flapjacks, Pruning Pancakes, and Depth First Steps
In the previous post in this series I spent some time trying to convince you that toy problems are worthy of your attention. In particular, I tried to sell you on the notion that the pancake problem was worthy of your attention. It isn’t necessarily because flipping flapjacks is in of itself fascinating. It’s because […]
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Ridiculous Problems, Real Applications
Life is filled with compromises. Generally, we just don’t have the resources, be they time, money or and so on, to do the things we want to do as well as we’d like. While I can’t solve that problem entirely or generally, I can help you intelligently trade time for improved solutions to problems that […]
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Machine Learning for Classifying Turbine Engine Performance
Introduction Machine learning is at least as old as Arthur Samuel’s attempts to improve his checkers playing programs back in the 1950s (Some Studies in Machine Learning Using the Game of Checkers), if not older still. Despite being around for decades, machine learning has received intense interest recently from the public, the scientific community, and […]
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