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Re: The perfect shape

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Post by nkozyra »

dj-wonk wrote: post #2

I may be reading this wrong, but I think this means that a shot glass is mathematically perfect.

I can only read this wrong because I found a shot glass "mathematically perfect" earlier this evening.

Re: The perfect shape

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Post by jey »

Awesome, but why a genetic algorithm? I wonder if it could be formulated as a tractable optimization problem instead.

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Post by elteto »

jey wrote: post #4

Awesome, but why a genetic algorithm? I wonder if it could be formulated as a tractable optimization problem instead.

I was thinking the same thing. It is a good exercise to test a genetic algorithm but a numerical solver could have been used as well.

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Post by colanderman »

Oh, I've heard this one before. Then the physicist fills a balloon with water and sticks a straw in it, proclaiming it a dynamically optimal system (in the absence of gravity); and finally the engineer sprays foam insulation on a glass jar and calls it a day.

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Post by nine_k »

dj-wonk wrote: post #2

I may be reading this wrong, but I think this means that a shot glass is mathematically perfect.

I'd notice that this must also describe the best shape of a glass to keep a beverage hot. But, unlike shot glasses, tea and coffee cups look very different.
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