NoahTheDuke comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 28, chapter 99-101 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: NoahTheDuke 17 December 2013 11:01:17PM 1 point [-]

I worked top-to-bottom, without change. If a new branch grew higher than my previous cuts, I focused it immediately. I know there's an optimal way, but I'm not quite clever enough to think of it.

Comment author: Vulture 18 December 2013 12:15:34AM *  2 points [-]

Well, for this applet the optimal strategy might depend heavily on how exactly its tameness is executed, which isn't very enlightening.

Edit: Derp, I tried out top-to-bottom and got it in 572. Definitely better than left-to-right or normals-first-ltr.

Comment author: Fermatastheorem 20 December 2013 06:43:00PM *  0 points [-]

I used top-to-bottom, but dires first on each level, and that seemed to work consistently pretty well.