Re: My OPE & the Euclicidean TSP
JSH wrote:
On Aug 17, 10:19 pm, Patricia Shanahan <p...@acm.org> wrote:
JSH wrote:
On Aug 17, 7:32 pm, Patricia Shanahan <p...@acm.org> wrote:
...
So why don't you just write up the relatively simple 2-D Euclidean TSP
algorithm in Java? That would convince people to help you with the rest
of your OPE ideas.
I'm about to head off as I think I've achieved all my objectives but I
think that's an excellent question that's worth answering fully.
I have the perspective of quite a few major discoveries under my belt
where I'm waiting for the world to catch up (and it's a remarkably
slow world considering how brilliant so many people seem to think it
is). But still it has been a rather HUGE shock to have the optimal
path algorithm pop up, prove that P=NP, and solve TSP through the use
of an additional degree of freedom that is, so rather, well, simple,
and I'm trying to absorb the emotional impact as much as anything
else.
....
I suggest absorbing the technical impact first, and getting on with
implementing your algorithm. Don't assume your algorithm is correct
before it has been precisely specified, preferably through a runnable
implementation, and proved correct for all cases.
Patricia
Simpler to me if it's all incorrect. Kind of preferable.
Good, because, although I like to keep an open mind, "it's all
incorrect" is the way to bet on proposed polynomial time algorithms for
NP-complete problems.
Have you ever been on a product development team from the beginning
all the way to the end? ...
Many, many times, on a wide range of project sizes, including complete
computer system developments, hardware as well as software.
However, the issue here is simply coding an algorithm you know in a
language you know. That is tiny compared to any sort of product
development, even a small software application. It's more like a
fraction of one weeks' homework for a CS student taking an algorithms
course.
If you produce a working implementation of a polynomial time algorithm
for 2-D Euclidean TSP you will have no trouble at all getting all the
help you need on the rest of your project.
Patricia
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