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Computing the optimal road trip across the U.S. | Dr. Randal S. Olson

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Randy Olson shows you how to compute an epic road trip across the U.S.

Last week, Tracy Staedter proposed an interesting idea to me: Why not use the same algorithm from my Where's Waldo article to compute the optimal road trip across every state in the U.S.? Visiting every U.S. state has long been on my bucket list, so I jumped on the opportunity and opened up my machine learning tool box for another quick weekend project. Note: If you're not interested in the technical details of the project, skip down to the Road trip stopping at major U.S. landmarks section. Planning the road trip One of the hardest parts of planning a road trip is deciding where to stop along

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