Add more context to the constrains?

[tomaszpolanski]

Thanks for the project, it's quite enlightening!

Would it be possible to add some more information about the constraints?
For example variables in // 2 <= E - S are not clear.
It would be great for ScheduleEntities.kt have also similar descriptions as Model.kt (which is pretty clear).
Similar thing with val discreteLength = (hoursLength * 4).toInt() - what is 4 here?

Again, thanks for teaching us, normal developers, a more scientific approach to development!

[thomasnield]

Thanks @tomaszpolanski, glad you find this engaging. I'm actually posting examples here for this book I'm reading and recommending to folks.

I will see if I can improve the descriptions, although I'm not done with this project yet and I may improve it over Christmas break (I need to prevent overlap as discrete values, not linear). One thing I'd like to see is KotlinDocs support MathJax, which I filed a KEEP for. I know there is a way to do it now but it requires a lot of hacky build configuration.

[thomasnield]

I just overhauled this model and I got it working. I will document it more thoroughly in the coming week, and I'm also going to write a blog article about how I did this.

[tomaszpolanski]

Thanks for that! I hope the post will be as good as Linear Programming Part I

[thomasnield]

@tomaszpolanski it will be better. I've figured out some ways to simplify the problem greatly and make it perform faster.

[thomasnield]

Hopefully this is well-documented now. I even wrote a blog article about this.
http://tomstechnicalblog.blogspot.com/2018/02/linear-programming-with-kotlin-part-iii.html