Can You Find The Optimal Route For The Trolley?

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Can You Find The Optimal Route For The Trolley?

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The "Travelling Salesman Trolley Problem" brilliantly combines two infamous nightmares: an ethical dilemma and an NP-hard algorithm.

While philosophers debate whether to sacrifice one person to save five, computer scientists are still trying to find the optimal route through this graph without having an existential crisis.

The joke here is that finding the perfect path is mathematically impossible to solve efficiently—much like trying to explain to your product manager why that "simple feature" will take three months to implement.

Just remember: whether you choose the greedy algorithm or dynamic programming approach, someone's deadline is definitely getting run over.

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