A*

  • Super-cool search technique

  • Not too hard to implement

Better Search In Sliding Tile Puzzles

Debugging AI

  • 5-hour epic debugging session

  • Rewrote DFS because Python hates recursion

  • Fixed a bunch of bugs

  • Getting DFID right is tricky

  • Techniques

    • Testing is key

    • Understanding invariants is key

    • Never gonna be sure

Another Heuristic

  • Let's add "human-search" to slider.py

  • Does looser heuristic really hurt A*?

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