ALIKE (or not) – A Second Go At Beating Wordle - Loren on the Art of MATLAB

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Today's guest blogger is Matt Tearle, who works on the team that creates our online training content, such as our various Onramp courses to get you started on MATLAB, Simulink, and applications. Matt has written several blog posts here in the past, usually prompted by a puzzle - and today is no different.STUMP (v: to cause to be at a loss; baffle)Wordle. It has captured us all. When Adam wrote his post about using MATLAB to solve Wordle puzzles, I had been thinking about doing exactly the same thing. (In the past, I have written code to cheat at Wordscapes and the NY Times Spelling Bee puzzle.) I've seen other friends post about letter distributions. I guess this is what nerds do.When I read Adam's post, I knew I had to see if I could do better. My first thought was what reader Peter Wittenberg suggested: weighting letter

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