blog: solving the 15-puzzle fast (AI)

[nikos]

here's the comment area for today's blog post found at
https://www.zabkat.com/blog/15-puzzle-p ... tabase.htm

[pj]

Very cool!

I'm always amazed at solutions people with MUCH BETTER math skills than myself can come up with.

Thanks for an interesting read!

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PJ in (stormy) FL

[nikos]

i'm glad you liked it
just to be sure, I didn't invent anything new here, I just reinvented the wheel invented by people smarter than both of us

[pj]

So it's like the time I wrote a Sudoku solver in Excel while I was home with the flu?

Is this a "for profit" exercise or just an activity born of pandemic-induced boredom?

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PJ in FL

[nikos]

hobby / pastime!

So it's like the time I wrote a Sudoku solver in Excel while I was home with the flu

so you are one of us, an AI guy
sudoku is a constraint satisfaction problem, combined with tree search, right? It is amazing how quickly a computer will solve the hardest sudoku puzzle.

my very far objective is somehow to simulate human-like intelligence, not just specialized algorithms, but one must start somewhere

[pj]

...
my very far objective is somehow to simulate human-like intelligence, not just specialized algorithms, but one must start somewhere

OMG! Nikos = Father of Skynet

[johngalt]

LMFAO!

"We're DOOMED!"

[nikos]

I'm close at putting the final nail to humanity's coffin, as I think I solved Rubik's cube too
but I won't write a separate blog, it is the same idea with "end game" pattern databases

next project, a small terminator robot that will hunt down users that ask too many new features

[johngalt]

*queues up new feature requests*

I'm game!