Re: Machine learning

Jens Gruschel wrote:

I need to write a system for optimizing the loading of a truck

Since the number of possibilities probably is too large to get the
best solution in a reasonable time with brute force, I think a
genetic algorithm might be able to solve this. The key (or one of the
keys) is to define a fitness function, which favors solutions which
are distributed evenly etc.

Yes. How that works in practice though is another matter...

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