It's different.  Beam search isn't complete because it throws away 
candidates to focus on just a few, to try and save time and memory.  I 
think the analogy is that it focuses like a beam.

>From the wikipedia page:
"... But in beam search, only a predetermined number of best partial 
solutions are kept as candidates.[1] It is thus a greedy algorithm."

On Wednesday, May 23, 2018 at 3:01:44 PM UTC-4, Amirouche Boubekki wrote:
>
>
>
> On Saturday, December 17, 2016 at 2:09:30 AM UTC+1, Nehal Patel wrote:
>>
>> A line by line account will be quite nice!  
>>
>> I've had the pleasure of hearing several of your former students give 
>> tutorials on (non-relational) scheme interpreters.  Without fail, they each 
>> recall with pure glee being shown how a mere apostrophe can separate a 
>> Lisp-2 from a Lisp-1... 
>>
>> It feels there is a similar to be had opportunity in your exposition of 
>> microkanren:  
>>
>> THIS line gives you "interleaving search"  -- a mere transposition of 
>>> arguments separates it from a bottomless abyss (of depth first...)
>>
>>
>> Preaching the gospels of interleaving search is one part of the 'kanren 
>> pedagogy (which is really one of best developed pedagogies in all of CS) 
>> that perhaps could be further emphasized.  
>>
>
> Isn't "interleaving search" another expression for "beam search" see 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beam_search
>   
>
>> In my own experience with porting microkanren -- trying to hunt down 
>> where the "magic lived" ended up being the most transformative part of the 
>> exercise.     Perhaps a catchy phrase might help: "The unreasonable 
>> effectiveness of interleaving search for relational fixed points" (or some 
>> such nonsense)
>>
>> cheers, 
>> nehal 
>>
>

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