On Sunday 14 September 2008, Pei Wang wrote: > There is no guaranteed improvement in an open system.
On this note, somebody suggested I reread Wolfram's NKS pg 340~ yesterday. It was around this section of his book that he mentions his lack of optimism in iteration to bring about 'improvement' or better solutions from the overall search space. He showed some pretty diagrams and other factoids to support this position, so if anyone wants to elaborate on these points of the inability of "iteration-only" to do the trick, that's a good place to start .. but iteration seems like it's going to be a necessary ingredient, even for open systems. (Unless not? What would the conditions of it not being so?) - Bryan ________________________________________ http://heybryan.org/ Engineers: http://heybryan.org/exp.html irc.freenode.net #hplusroadmap ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=114414975-3c8e69 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
