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Q: References on the facility location problem

1:39 PM

Another day, another questioner chased away:P

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CS.SE Question

3:13 PM

Thanks to the answers given to my last question, I'm looking for references on the facility location problem. I'd like to find a course for example, which can explain to me the problem and every I need to know to study it. By myself, I found: A thesis found on the Wiki article An article on a ...

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6:58 PM

@buffy I'm finally installing Greenfoot.

7:47 PM

@buffy It seems to strongly resemble Gridworld. Is one based on the other?

8:15 PM

@BenI. I don't know, actually, though I know the authors of both. I think that greenfoot had a more ambitious charter, though. It has a lot of resources that you can find at greenroom.greenfoot.org

I never used gridworld. It was built as a case study for APCS AB course when that still existed.

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9:49 PM

The "leaderboard" says I'm ahead on rep this week with..... zero.

The last place finisher has ..... zero. Tightest race ever.

Peeking at the leaderboard for a slow sight on the first day of a period is cheating. It's always a tight race in such conditions. At least you have the lead, for now. ;P

10:16 PM

For comparison, at Academia, which someone today suggested is having a slow, weekend summer day has votes for member halfway through the third page. What lots of members can add, of course.

And there I find 1901 pages of users. Here it's only 145 pages, a magnitude of difference/

What Buffy said. ;-)

Somehow it feels good to use magnitude for its literal meaning rather than just "big".

Even if it's at the expense of our small, thus far, user base.

Yes. I've noticed one or two questions over there that should probably have come here.

How old are they?

10:27 PM

Some are peripheral, like this one: academia.stackexchange.com/questions/108957/…

One that might have been adapted for this site, but maybe not: academia.stackexchange.com/questions/113724/…

Not exactly what I meant, but this one is fun: academia.stackexchange.com/questions/88111/…

Otherwise nothing especially recent.

@Buffy If it's not an assignment, it needs a lot of help before being an SE-worthy question for any of the sites I'm familiar with. As-is, I'd VTC here as well.

@Buffy This one I like, :)

11:09 PM

@Buffy I'm in second place!!

@BenI. You should be used to that by now.

@BenI. Indeed.

And thesecretmaster (no need to wake him) hasn't downvoted himself into last place.

Well, looking at the league results, it seems that 2nd place is higher than average. Last time you were in second for the week was the first week of April.

Of course, the next week you had the top-dog spot. :)

I was top in... April? That's after the girl was born :P

Major accomplishment!!

I planned to get the excavator badge today, but instead, I stumbled across an answer of @Buffy that I had missed, and it opened my eyes to new possibilities yet again. Have an upvote, and now you are deservedly in first place for the week.

11:30 PM

Hmmm. Messed up my calculations.

Speaking of the tiny tot, how is she?

Her keyboard exploration is still in the sidebar.

@Buffy "Calculations" of machinations?

@GypsySpellweaver perhaps

I got excavator a while ago. I'm wanting sportsmanship, but I think it will take a few more questions for me to get it fairly.

I remember it was slow a year ago, but I don't remember this slow.