From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2008-01-06T10:31:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Chain, Chain, Chain (was Re: zed shaw zed shaw zed shaw)

Giles Bowkett wrote:
>>>> Why didn't it find Thunder Road[1]? (And then maybe Road Trip to
>>>> Bountiful...)
>>>>
>>>> [1] http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0052293/
>>> This is actually a very interesting question. I think the answer is
>>> probably "Travelling Salesman Problem."
>> This is not an optimization problem (not as stated so far, anyway).
>>
>> There must be a bug somewhere--in IMDB, or in the script.
> 
> OK. But why it didn't find X combination when it did find Y
> combination, surely that's a complex question to answer.
> 

Actually, what I overlooked is that Rick's original post said he used a 
"non-imdb list", and I found "Thunder Road" on imdb. Probably his list 
just doesn't include this one.

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