asciilifeform: lulzily, for some yrs i occasionally read his www, and all that time thought it was named for some obscure algo ( y'know, how there is 'ant-colony optimization', variant on simulated annealing with multiple threads and 'pheromone trails' , imagined there is perhaps also a 'shtetl optimization'... )

asciilifeform: !#s simulated annealing

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: recall the ball bearing analogy for simulated annealing algo ?

asciilifeform: (simulated annealing, for one)

asciilifeform: and by cheating in your wolf form, when larger (e.g., simulated annealing, eldritch magic such as evolutionary compute, genetic algo, etc)

asciilifeform: he pictured originality in thought as something like the 'temperature' in a simulated-annealing

asciilifeform: simulated annealing...

asciilifeform: (too 'cold' in the simulated annealing sense. i.e., not psychotic enough.)

asciilifeform: !s simulated annealing

asciilifeform: btw, anyone following the discussion who is unfamiliar with 'simulated annealing' method of mathematical wizardry, should open a book and quickly become familiar

asciilifeform: your simulated annealing turd won't converge, you'll sit & curse the gods

asciilifeform: (as in simulated annealing)

asciilifeform: of, you could say, insufficiently high temperature in the simulated-annealing sense. ☟︎☟︎