On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 6:43 PM, Wesley Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Max OrHai <[email protected]> wrote: > > My "thinking out loud" response would be that classical control theory > may > > not be very well suited to CS-type problems, which often can't even be > > approximated by linear systems. Cybernetic feedback control, a la Weiner, > is > > IIRC mostly about systems with a few continuous variables, while our > > problems more often involve large numbers of discrete variables. > > The field that combines dynamical systems (which I believe also > applies to control theory systems) and large numbers of discrete > variables (topology) is called Symbolic Dynamics: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic_dynamics > http://www.thetopologyofchaos.net/ > > If you start scratching the surface of this stuff, it's incredible how > much work there is on it. I still don't have the slightest idea how > it all works, but still find myself fascinated. > > wes > > This is closer to what I am interested in, but the stretch and squeeze metaphor unbelievably bothers me.
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