That may be so, but I'm still grappling with the visual of a younger Ian
on all fours under the table -- or whatever it was, I deleted the email
but the visual lingers, morphing disturbingly).
phx.
Nicholas M Glykos wrote:
Dear Jacob,
Why is it called "queen of spades?"
As it happened, I was reading Alexander Pushkin's "Queen of Spades" while
writing Qs. The book touches upon the subject of how close you can get to
win everything and still lose it all. I thought that this was relevant for
a stochastic search, and so the program got baptised.
Nicholas
