Cool post, and nice tool! Until now I've kind of been one of those that have been able to identify NP problems and know that "there are ways to optimize them" b

Cool post, and nice tool! Until now I've kind of been one of those that have been able to identify NP problems and know that "there are ways to optimize them" but haven't had much experience in actually optimizing any in the real world. I enjoyed the explanations of how heuristics and inference fit in to solving those problems, and it was cool to see how little the code needed to change to include those optimizing constraints.