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Decider
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clingo
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Learn Datalog Today
One of the easiest to get started on Datalog in my opinion is really clingo https://potassco.org/clingo/ , which can be pip installed and has python bindings. Answer Set Programming goes beyond datalog, but it holds datalog semantics as a sublanguage. It is unfortunate this is not well advertised.
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Modern SAT solvers: fast, neat and underused (2018)
Love this article and the push to build awareness of what modern SAT solvers can do.
The thing it misses, though, is that there are higher level abstractions that are far more accessible than SAT. If I were teaching a course on this, I would start with either Answer Set Programming or Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT). The most widely used solvers for those are clingo [0] and Z3 [1]:
With ASP, you write in a much clearer Prolog-like syntax that does not require nearly as much encoding effort as your typical SAT problem. Z3 is similar -- you can code up problems in a simple Python API, or write them in the smtlib language.
Both of these make it easy to add various types of optimization, constraints, etc. to your problem, and they're much better as modeling languages than straight SAT. Underneath, they have solvers that leverage all the modern CDCL tricks.
We wrote up a paper [2] on how to formulate a modern dependency solver in ASP; it's helped tremendously for adding new types of features like options, variants, and complex compiler/arch dependencies to Spack [3]. You could not get good solutions to some of these problems without a capable and expressive solver.
[0] https://github.com/potassco/clingo
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Ask HN: What is new in Algorithms / Data Structures these days?
Answer Set Programming is an incredibly powerful tool to declaratively solve combinatorial problems. Clingo is one of the best open source implementations in my opinion: https://github.com/potassco/clingo
Decider
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Modern SAT solvers: fast, neat and underused (2018)
Plug for my Constraint Solver if anyone wants a simple example https://github.com/lifebeyondfife/Decider
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Automated scheduling for a uni project
There are different tools and libraries out there for this. For example here is a .NET library for it. Google Cloud also apparently has an API you can use. There are also other hosted solutions out there.
What are some alternatives?
ezno - A JavaScript compiler and TypeScript checker written in Rust with a focus on static analysis and runtime performance
or-tools - Google's Operations Research tools:
libclc - Cache Line Container - C11
OptaPlanner - Java Constraint Solver to solve vehicle routing, employee rostering, task assignment, maintenance scheduling, conference scheduling and other planning problems.
pub - The pub command line tool
Choco - An open-source Java library for Constraint Programming
highfleet-ship-opt - A c/c++ module and python extensions for automatic optimization of Highfleet ship modules. Try it live at https://hfopt.jodavaho.io
gecode - Generic Constraint Development Environment
egglog - egraphs + datalog!
VsVIM - Vim Emulator Plugin for Visual Studio 2015+
rfcs - RFC process for Bytecode Alliance projects