Re:What happens to tech workers when their skills become obs...
by virgilp on Thursday September 12, 2019 @03:06AM
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Oh, I see what you mean; I would still be seriously impressed with any bootcamp that teaches approximation algorithms. And not in a good way TBH - it kinda' defeats the purpose of the bootcamp. It's hard enough to go through Knuth in a few months...
Edit: it's 3/2 for Christofides' algorithm. Native dynamic is bad speed but gives accurate solution. It's no good for more than 24 nodes or so.
Usually it is good enough, other similar and better attempts try to tighten that bound with more admissible heuristics. E.g. for metric spaces solution is possible to tighten a lot. (Like shortest travel without weights.)