{"id":440,"date":"2008-07-10T09:37:15","date_gmt":"2008-07-10T14:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oranchak.com\/?p=440"},"modified":"2008-07-10T09:37:15","modified_gmt":"2008-07-10T14:37:15","slug":"gecco-hotlanta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/?p=440","title":{"rendered":"GECCO @ Hotlanta"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve finally finished my crazy Zodiac cipher poster for GECCO 2008<\/a> in Atlanta next week:<\/p>\n


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\nClick image for biggie size, or get the PDF version<\/a>. And here’s the 2-page paper<\/a> if you want it.<\/i>
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Last year, I used PowerPoint (gasp) to create the poster. What a huge pain that was. This year, I used OmniGraffle<\/a>, by far the best damned diagramming software I have ever<\/i> used.<\/p>\n

It should be a fun conference; I’m excited to hear about the results of all the competitions<\/a>. Chris<\/a> and I entered the “2D Packing Problem”<\/a> contest; alas, our entry did not win. Still, we had a lot of fun trying out different ideas – it was a very fun problem to work on. The other contests should be fun to hear about, especially the Rubik’s Cube Solver contest. Entrants in this contest get to use a commercial grid computing platform to breed Rubik’s Cube solving algorithms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve finally finished my crazy Zodiac cipher poster for GECCO 2008 in Atlanta next week: Click image for biggie size, or get the PDF version. And here’s the 2-page paper if you want it. Last year, I used PowerPoint (gasp) … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,32,35,37,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-science","category-tech","category-travel","category-zodiac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}