Thus spake Steve Smith circa 29/12/08 11:21 AM: > One mode of this that you might not be taking into account is "the > Trickster". Most (all?) cultures have a disruptive element/character > in their mythology whose role is to disrupt the standard patterns. > A random heating factor in the annealing process, or injecting noise > into a gradient descent algorithm to escape local minima. I don't > always appreciate/value the Trickster. Doug is often playing > "Trickster" opposite Owen's role as "Prometheus"?
The trouble is that when the Trickster is, himself, tricked, it may take some time for the realization to land. Not that I know anything about that, mind you ... I'm just yapping ... [grin] -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://agent-based-modeling.com ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
