Why a Sudoku-solving program looks smart: Recursion, backtracking, and the idea of 'trying from the most likely failure points'

I was thinking about a program to solve Sudoku.You fill a 9x9 grid with numbers from 1 to 9. The same number must not be repeated in any row, column, or 3x3 block.When humans solve Sudoku, they look ...
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Tree Search, Recursion, and How Computers Play Games

Not much to add to this one: Web series Computerphile visits intelligent systems researcher Rob Miles at the University of Nottingham for a breezy but also pretty dense interview on the enormous ...

Just Splitting Mahjong Tiles Leads to a Massive Flowchart—The Invention of Recursive Functions

When studying programming, you notice something strange.Processes that are extremely complex for humans to think through can ...