Tag: Salesman

What A Roofing Salesman Taught Me About Stereotypes and Bias

One beautiful afternoon, I was home doing some work on my computer, and I heard the doorbell ring. I immediately went to the door and opened it. A young man was standing in front of the door and when he saw me, he asked me: “Is the owner of the house home?” I looked at him, and I...

Modeling the Traveling Salesman Problem from first principles

This article continues right where the article for sprint 1 left off. You don’t need to have read it to understand what we’ll do here, but let me give you a quick recap (feel free to jump to section 2 if you did read the previous article). In a nutshell, we laid out the common ...