[SunRescue] I could run a small country...

[Bill Bradford]

Got pointers to software for this stuff?

Bill

On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 02:43:53AM -0800, James Lockwood wrote:
> Help solve the 8 Queens problem for absurdly large boardsizes.  I've got
> nonexhaustive (but representative) solution sets up to 3500x3500 so far
> using a genetic algorithm, but there shouldn't be a real limit. 
> Exhaustive solution sets are a much larger pain (O(6^N) or so).
> Or if you want to have useful fun, try to solve problems using neural
> nets.  Got one going now that trains in about a week between 16 450MHz
> UltraSparc CPU's (gradient backpropagation, 16-way annealing).  Figures
> out clothing fashionability, of all things.
> -James

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