(this is the part where you tack on a silly harmless lie at the end, like - “this specific packing optimization improvement was actually discovered accidentally, through a small mini-game introduced into Candy Crush in 2013. Players discovered the novel improvement, hundreds of individual times, within the first several minutes of launch.”)
Comment on Just one more square bro
wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks agoI mean, the actual answer is severalfold: “sometimes, when you need to fill a space, you don’t end up with simple compound numbers of identical packages” is one,but really, it’s a problem in mathematics which, were we to have a general solution to find the most efficient method of packing n objects with identical properties into the smallest area, we would be able to more effectively predict natural structures, including predicting things like protein folding, which is a huge area of medical research.
PolarKraken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
sukhmel@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
Are you sure the story is real? I can find anything that points to it, so a link would help a lot
wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
That candy crush story is, as the commenter said, a lie. I don’t know why they would suggest that adding on a lie is in any way good, since we know that this packing was discovered in the late 1990s. It’s on the wikipedia article for square packing (with sources) but I don’t feel like looking it up again.
sukhmel@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
I didn’t even understand the point that it was a lie, and not the original comment had a lie, reading skill issue
PolarKraken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
For the lolz? Little harmless fun? Sheesh.
PolarKraken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I’m not sure where I came across it, but it’s out there somewhere. You can do it!
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
The part about predicting protein folding makes sense, but this post was about waffles…
wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I was just answering your question of why someone would want to arrange a prime number of squares. The waffle is clearly a meme.
Cethin@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Even when it can’t be generalized, you still often learn something by trying. You may invent a new way to look at a set of problems that no one’s done before, or you may find a solution to something totally unrelated. There’s a lot to learn even when it looks like you’ll gain nothing.