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Milestone 5 - Being One With The Island: Answering Your Questions About The Solver

Now that you’ve traversed the island, it’s time to get to know it better! Answer the following questions in investigation.txt:

1. Why does our scoring system work? What does it account for, and what doesn’t it account for? What are some other scoring metrics you can think of? Answer in around 3-4 sentences.

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2. Look at the histogram that you made in Milestone 4. What can you say about the distribution of these randomly sampled quartets? Why does our solution sometimes attain a higher score than Wyna’s solution when our solution is incorrect?

# YOUR RESPONSE HERE


3. In your pairwise similarity cosine graph made in Milestone 4, can you spot any red herrings for your chosen puzzle? What are some unique quirks about this graph that you may notice? What do you see, or what don’t you see? Answer in around 3 sentences, and, of course, more thoughts are always welcome.

# YOUR RESPONSE HERE

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Now, come up with two questions about the solver that you would like to investigate and tweak in the solver. Perhaps this is how the solver scores solutions or how we search for a solution! The possibilities are endless!

Your first question and how you answered it:

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Your second question and how you answered it:

# YOUR RESPONSE HERE