August 9, 2007
Posted in Reading
Stross and optical solutions for TSP
How did we all live without blogging?
Charles Stross mentions a paper describing a solution for the Traveling Salesman problem using white-light interferometry instead of a digital computer. What do I love about this? Let me count the ways…
- A pro hard SF writer is doing research from primary sources for one of his fave topics
- He links to a free pre-press copy of the journal article so we can read the paper for ourselves
- His unruly bunch of commenters nail the practical limitations of the theoretical approach by comment #16 or so, and then keep going into a discussion of analog computing vs. digital computing vs. quantum computing. And provide references!
