Programmers Contest: Fit pictures on a page

[Robert Kern]

Brian van den Broek wrote:

> Well, I found it ironic, but only when you add that the genetic 
> algorithm approach came up in the context of a "best fit" problem. 
> Survival of the fittest indeed :-)

Optimization codes don't always succeed. What's the irony?

-- 
Robert Kern
rkern at ucsd.edu

"In the fields of hell where the grass grows high
  Are the graves of dreams allowed to die."
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