From: commiebastard on
Depth first search? Breadth first search? A* search? Combinatorial
search? Graph search?

I try to look at all possibilities and analyze all facts in front of
me before I make a decision on everything. I am very anal and
obsessive in details, so I would classify myself (naively at first
glance) as an iterative deepening DFS with a naive refactoring
heuristic. I also tend to do constraint relaxation whenever I come
across dead ends and such, but not too often.

Although at times I do try to be more breadth first in my approach and
see what everybody else is doing, I hate to follow the crowd.
From: salgud on
On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 13:24:44 -0800 (PST), commiebastard wrote:

> Depth first search? Breadth first search? A* search? Combinatorial
> search? Graph search?
>
> I try to look at all possibilities and analyze all facts in front of
> me before I make a decision on everything. I am very anal and
> obsessive in details, so I would classify myself (naively at first
> glance) as an iterative deepening DFS with a naive refactoring
> heuristic. I also tend to do constraint relaxation whenever I come
> across dead ends and such, but not too often.
>
> Although at times I do try to be more breadth first in my approach and
> see what everybody else is doing, I hate to follow the crowd.

I suspect you haven't done enough "constraint relaxation". Try taking a day
or two off. Maybe smoke a doobie?