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Once a shoe company in the South of Brazil (Novo Hamburgo or maybe São Leopoldo) had an employee who was long due retirement and they wanted to put some softwar
by forinti 6y ago
Once a shoe company in the South of Brazil (Novo Hamburgo or maybe São Leopoldo) had an employee who was long due retirement and they wanted to put some software in place to do his job, which was to cup up leather in the most efficient manner possible.
Try as they might, they never reached this man's efficiency.
- hinkley 6y agoPeople studying the traveling salesman problem have long known that a human being can get alarmingly close to an optimal route in minutes. The best answer can take days, weeks, heat death of the universe, but some teenager can get around 95% on the first try. We’ve spent a lot of time trying to figure out how humans do these approximations, but honestly I think we could spend a lot more time looking at it.