The Christmas Present Problem: It’s Hard – NP-Hard
As Christmas approaches, many of us are faced with the annual problem of who to buy presents for, how much to spend, what presents to buy and how to be fair to everybody. Is this a tough problem to solve? Perhaps some science will help? Let’s try and state the problem a little more precisely, […]
3D Bin Packing, help Santa and share $10,000
3D bin packing can help Santa It’s a little late to help Santa this year, but as this Kaggle competition (essentially a 3D bin packing problem) does not close until the 26th January 2014, you can contribute towards the planning that will no doubt start as soon as he touches down at the North Pole after […]