Raul, From: Raul Miller <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2019 08:12:02 -0400 > And "temperature" is a function of kT, k and kmax: > > "kT * (1 - k/kmax)"
Hold on. According to http://www.rosettacode.org/wiki/Simulated_annealing "Pseudo code ... Notations T : temperature." Now you're saying that kT * (1 - k/kmax) is temperature? Then what is T? > ... notation conventions that tie back > to the wikipedia page. It's a muddy distinction, and it's muddy on the > wikipedia page: a proper fix would probably need to start there. Sure. The article can be improved; but Wikipedia is a wiki. It can be edited. > What would be a better way of phrasing this, from your point of view? A necessary condition is non-ambiguity. Temperature is the analogue of T or of kT * (1 - k/kmax) or of something else. Or temperature is never mentioned. If temperature is involved, it should not have multiple analogues. First, can we repair the Wikipedia article please. I have an account and am happy to edit; but not isolated small fixes. The story must make sense in total. > It's a bit uncomfortable introducing the kT*(1-kMax/k) notation into > the psuedocode, because that suggests a specific cooling schedule. > And, it's uncomfortable introducing a sentence into the pseudocode > section of the wikipedia page which emphasizes that temperature is a > cooling function because that has already been said. It might be worth > going the other direction and taking a hint from that wikipedia text > which says temperature is a function of r (which is a ratio), but... > even there it's getting into slippery grammatical territory trying to > bring out whatever missing important issues are missing. Absolutely. What do you imagine as a better presentation in Wikipedia? If we can agree on a plan, I'll work on it. Thanks! ... Peter E. -- https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Medical_Machines Tel: +1 604 670 0140 Bcc: peter at easthope. ca ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
