Re: [FRIAM] What's in a name? MOTH to a Flame

On Mon, Nov 02, 2020 at 11:24:39AM -0500, Barry MacKichan wrote: > When I interviewed at Microsoft, one of my interviewers was Charles Simonyi, > the originator of what is called “Hungarian”. It is a small set of rules and a > bunch of prefixes used to encode type information in variable and

Re: [FRIAM] What's in a name? MOTH to a Flame

When I interviewed at Microsoft, one of my interviewers was Charles Simonyi, the originator of what is called “Hungarian”. It is a small set of rules and a bunch of prefixes used to encode type information in variable and function names. For example, ‘lpszName’ is the name of a long pointer to

Re: [FRIAM] What's in a name? MOTH to a Flame

It’s funny that you should mention this right now, because you WEREN’T at FRIAM last week, and we spent quite a time discussing whether physicists could honestly disclaim the terms they use and the metaphors those terms imply. Eric and I were arguing that they can’t and that those metaphors

Re: [FRIAM] What's in a name? MOTH to a Flame

> Why is this coming up now?? - Some sense of urgency as I want to get your input and approval on naming while your mental faculties are still at their height ;-p - you mentioned having some regret on the name two weeks ago at FRIAM and I thought I heard you mention an alternative

Re: [FRIAM] What's in a name? MOTH to a Flame

Yes. You are correct. That’s why the use of stupid names is so stupid. We could have used abbreviations such as UnconAltConAss (Moth) and UnconDefConAss (NasMoth), ConAltUnconAss (Tit for tat), etc. Mostly I think we should obey our nursery school teacher and “use our words”. There was a

Re: [FRIAM] What's in a name? MOTH to a Flame

NiceMoth? Nicholas Thompson Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology Clark University thompnicks...@gmail.com https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ From: Friam On Behalf Of Stephen Guerin Sent:

Re: [FRIAM] What's in a name? MOTH to a Flame

And as I look at it more closely, Nasty Moth isn't actually "MOTH" in the meaning of "My Way or Highway" as it leaves when the other agent does "My way" which is defecting also. ___ stephen.gue...@simtable.com CEO, Simtable

Re: [FRIAM] What's in a name? MOTH to a Flame

> I think the proper name is Conditional Association Strategy Yes, I think of Conditional Association Strategy as its "genus". There's an unspecified bit in the "genome" on the conditional behavior in that name that needs to be more specific to make it a species which could be either cooperate or

Re: [FRIAM] What's in a name? MOTH to a Flame

I think the proper name is Conditional Association Strategy (as opposed to a Condition Altruism Strategy. My original impulse was not .. um … prosocial. I was pissed by the extent to which the entire literature had gone down the Axelrod rat hole with its totally unnatural assumptions and

[FRIAM] What's in a name? MOTH to a Flame

Nick, On a recent FRIAM you expressed mild regret on your naming of MOTH (My Way or the Highway) http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/9/2/4.html *Given a chance to rename it what were some of the options over the years? Does the list have better suggestions?* Naming may seem trivial and arbitrary