Building towers and crossing rivers: a different perspective on puzzles with Python
summary
Explains solving classic puzzles like the Tower of Hanoi and river-crossing problems using Python, focusing not on recursion or brute-force search but on mathematical formulations and machine learning techniques. Demonstrates how to model these puzzles mathematically and apply ML approaches to find solutions and patterns.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:26Who is Juna Salviati
- 1:03The Tower of Hanoi
- 2:27Gray code
- 8:02The Tower of Bucharest
- 10:20Save the goat and the cabbage
- 16:58Choosing the action
- 19:48Conclusions
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