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by runn1ng 4784 days ago
Damn, and there I hoped it will be a trailer about a salesman in early 1900s (when the problem was starting to be defined and studied), traveling across Europe and trying to meet all the major European cities with the shortest amount of time, with overtones of disappearing the Victorian era and entering the new century with the ideals for new, more industrialized and exact world of 20th century with some foreshadowing into the rampant nationalism and two wars that followed. Was it the growing influence of math and algorithms (that made concepts like "Traveling Salesman problem" even possible) that directly or indirectly caused the genocides of the past century? All that could be asked by the salesman, traveling from city to city in the shortest amount of time, in the train, or maybe newly built Daimler-Mercedes car.

And instead I got guys sitting in a room. Damn.