Wow, this got picked up on HN too. My roommate wrote this last year as a joke for CMU students. It's a simple script that pulls from a pre selected discrete set. Author is Alan Pierce btw.
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#12be sure to reload the page a few times to get the right one :)
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#15Makes me think of an article I read many years ago (in, I think, Mathematics Magazine) titled "Confusion Rings" which parodied abstract algebra papers. About all I remember now is "heterocococomorphism".
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#16Makes me think of an article I read many years ago (in, I think, Mathematics Magazine) titled "Confusion Rings" which parodied abstract algebra papers. About all I remember now is "heterocococomorphism".
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#17Wow, this got picked up on HN too. My roommate wrote this last year as a joke for CMU students. It's a simple script that pulls from a pre selected discrete set. Author is Alan Pierce btw.
The script is trivial! Just view it as a concatenation of strings whose elements are pulled from a discrete set of terms.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's a non converging Monte-Carlo optimization with a constant cost function
Isn't Monte-Carlo non-converging by definition? If the algorithm converged it'd be a Las Vegas algorithm...