Open thread, Jul. 11 - Jul. 17, 2016

MrMind

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I know that. But my focus in this thread are North America's schools as a big market.

But yes - how good this algorithm really is? Where is its optimal domain?

I guess, evolving algorithms is the best usage. Either from a previous known algorithm, either from scratch, either from data. Like evolving Kepler's law from planetary data. I wrote a post about that here, a few years ago.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/9pl/automatic_programming_an_example/

North America's schools as a big market

The thing is, it's a very fragmented market. The US schools are local, basically run at the town level, so for you it is essentially a retail market with a large number of customers each of which buys little. I'm guessing that you'll need a large sales organization to break in.