In the plot of the 1984 movie The Last Starfighter, a teenager is recruited to fight an interstellar battle after unknowingly proving himself worthy by means of a high score on an otherwise unassuming ...
toulbar2 is an open-source black-box C++ optimizer for cost function networks and discrete additive graphical models. This also covers Max-SAT, Max-Cut, QUBO (and constrained variants), among others.
backon is a modern evolution of backoff — a zero-dependency Python library for retry with exponential backoff. It provides decorator, functional, and context manager APIs for both sync and async code.