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Re:What happened when Boston Public Schools tried for equity... by CJefferson on Monday September 24, 2018 @01:56PM (#18059805)
This is my research area, and this is exactly the problem. While technically these kinds of problems are np complete, they are usually easy in practice. Getting people's requirements is much, much, much harder.
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Re:What happened when Boston Public Schools tried for equity... by mikeash on Monday September 24, 2018 @02:15PM (#18059948)
Exactly. It took me a couple of weeks, working in my leisure time, to get the solver to work well. It took me a couple of years of feedback from my victims to give it a set of rules and weights that didn’t need constant tweaking.
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