Re: [silk] the power of stupidity

[Alok G. Singh]

On  7 Aug 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> like genetic populations, they're doomed by the mathematics of
> random walks to circling about their summum bonum* (should by chance
> any achieve it, it's only a transitory condition).

An argument could be made that the local optima themselves exhibit
chaotic behaviour in which case the 'jitters' could be the sign of a
healthy, responsive system.

-- 
Alok

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