Well, Albyn Jones gave a great solution to my challenge that found the best
reading schedule.
My original thought was that doing an exhaustive search would take too much
time, but Albyn showed that there are ways to do it efficiently.
My approach (as mentioned before) was to use optim with meth
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Subject: Re: [R] optimization challenge
The key idea is that you are building a matrix that contains the
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> > Nice problem: I wasted my whole day on it :-)
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> > I was explaining my plan for a solution to a colleague who is a
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> Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 5:31 PM
> To: Greg Snow
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> Nice problem: I wasted my whole day on it :-)
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> I was
Greg
Nice problem: I wasted my whole day on it :-)
I was explaining my plan for a solution to a colleague who is a
computer scientist, he pointed out that I was trying to re-invent the
wheel known as dynamic programming. here is my code, apparently it is
called "bottom up dynamic programming".
I have a challenge that I want to share with the group.
This is not homework (but I may assign it as such if I teach the appropriate
class again) and I have found one solution, so don't need anything urgent.
This is more for fun to see if others can find a better solution than I did.
The chall
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