glen e. p. ropella wrote:
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]
Apologies to Forrest Gump (he's probably on this list lurking):
"Friam is like a box of Tricksters"
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