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Rao Algorithms & R-method (sites.google.com)
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[–] rhino_hornbill@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Metaheuristics are an interesting field, based around the idea of trading rigor for speed in order to tackle otherwise intractable problems like the traveling salesman. However, this lack of rigor has attracted the attention of unscrupulous paper mills, leading to the hilarious results Dr Rao complains about in this paper.