Michael Patriksson

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Metaheuristics and the Emperor's new clothes - why do I care, and worry?

Being Scandinavian I have read and seen countless of times some representation of the children's story about the emperor's new clothes - by Hans Christian Andersen. As you might know the...

09 May 2019 2,157 34 View

Metaheuristics for the simplest combinatorial problems - why??

I just read a question thread about the 0/1 knapsack problem, in which someone asked how to code the bat heuristic. My reaction was to ask something like the short-hand "WTF?". This is one of the...

01 November 2018 9,221 32 View

Aren't the questions at RG becoming rather too precise - even of the phishing type?

I've been here a couple of years, and I think I can see a recent increase in questions asked that are more and more precise - even suspiciously so. While it is good for the purpose in providing...

20 July 2018 1,804 1 View

A science joke?

Three scientists sit at a bar, overlooking an apartment building. Before the first beer, they notice two persons entering the building. A few hours and beers later, they notice that three persons...

25 February 2017 3,150 50 View

"Faster publishing" = a darn nuisance! - and an example of lazy phishing!

Why do so many RG members beg to be informed of the existence of a journal that basically will write the article for you, within two weeks - at most -, "and here is the title!"? If you want to be...

01 January 1970 6,047 10 View

Are this publishing house bloody joking??

Quote from a very recent e-mail to my account: Dear Colleague, We hereby present Journal of Basic and Applied Research International (ISSN: 2395-3438 (Print), 2395-3446 (Online))...

01 January 1970 4,077 22 View

The importance of the literature/survey: an update

I would like to hear your views on the literature survey in a paper: 1. Do you find it fun to write, or not? 2. Do you find that it is very important in every paper? 3. Do you find it hard to...

01 January 1970 2,218 26 View

What to do with the posts that flood RG, asking for advice while providing no info in return?

Plenty of posts - most often from junior "scientists" (yes, in quotes!) throwing out their questions to the world, hoping for a catch in any direction - at RG are vague, incomplete, and seem to be...

01 January 1970 6,646 5 View

Please stop the silly phishing!

Every day students or maybe even "scientists" post questions on RG, when they should in fact either try harder, read, think, and/or try again - before posting a question on RG. The point with RG -...

01 January 1970 9,633 8 View

The no "no free lunch theorem"

In computational complexity and optimisation the no free lunch (NFL) theorem is a result that states that for certain types of mathematical problems (definitely NOT all), the computational cost of...

01 January 1970 4,770 1 View