Next Post Taking on a Montessori Journey. Leave a Reply Cancel reply Enter your comment here Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Email required Address never made public. Name required. Follow Following. Petite Fox Designs. Sign me up. Below, I visualized the best solution over time of one such method — a genetic algorithm — that found a nearly perfect solution. As you can see, genetic algorithms continually tinker with the solution — always trying something slightly different from the current best solution and keeping the better one — until they can't find a better solution any more.
Note: Because genetic algorithms — like many optimization algorithms — are stochastic in nature, they won't always result in the exact same solution at the end. After running the genetic algorithm for about 5 minutes, I ended up with the solution below.
This path represents one of the shortest possible paths to follow on the page to find Waldo, so if we followed this path exactly, we'd most likely find Waldo much faster than someone following a more basic technique. If you'd like to learn more about the methodology used here, see the accompanying methods and code document. For those interested: I also tried a standard hillclimber algorithm , but it always converged on a worse solution than the genetic algorithm. Of course, we should never take results from machine learning too literally.
A robot might be able to follow this path perfectly, but I wouldn't be able to remember that path unless it was etched on every page for me. Instead, I think we can take some general lessons from the path that the genetic algorithm discovered:.
I annotated the best solution with a general path to follow when searching for Waldo. If you don't find Waldo at the end of that trail, then you've got an outlier and should check the middle of the pages or the top left and right.
The U. The trouble is when an outlier illustration comes along. When you're on an outlier illustration, you not only waste time following the path, but then you're left disoriented trying to trace back and worrying that you missed Waldo. MarylovesSelena said: Behind you. EYBanuelos said: He's in China! Oh, by the way, he took off with your cookies!
Duncan-superfan said: I ate him? LunaShay posted over a year ago. He tasted like soap. Hiding 2 comments Did you eat him whole? XD TDIlover posted over a year ago. Yes, like a snake. XDDD Duncan-superfan posted over a year ago. This puzzle doesn't have the other characters besides Waldo, but it does have his "truly terrific sights" as labeled in order: B1 the lady burning the pants; B2 the long man with the long tie; and B3 the glove attacking the man.
Arguably the easiest of the seven puzzles Woof took me a while, though. Whose bright idea was it to look for something as small and unassuming as a dog's tail? You'll see what I mean later. Surprisingly, I couldn't see Odlaw at all in this one, and I spent a good twenty minutes looking it over. You'd think yellow and black stripes would be easily discernible in a vast sea of blue. Surprisingly, I found Wilma within a couple of minutes. Odlaw or what I think to be him was a much harder find, clocking in about ten minutes
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