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> Sorry for the lag. No worries. > It feels to me like we're arguing the same corner but we don't have a common language. That's possible. It's actually a deep philosophical question. Do planets "solve Newton's equations of motion" when they move? On the one hand, they move in ways that correspond to solutions to those equations, and so one could say that they "find solutions" to those equations. On the other hand, t…
>> That's possible. It's actually a deep philosophical question. Do planets "solve Newton's equations of motion" when they move? Yes, that's an interesting question- that I'm really not equipped to answer. Probably for the best. >> I used to be. I've been out of the field for over 20 years now. But back in the day I was pretty well known. I'm really new to the field so I don't know your work. In fact I wouldn't even…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATLANTIS_architecture
https://flownet.com/gat/papers/tla.pdf
I think I'm most proud of this:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00710855
https://flownet.com/gat/papers/tpesamr.pdf
though it didn't make nearly as much of a splash.
I was also the tech lead on the New Millennium Deep Space One Remote Agent Executive, which sounds cool, but was really kind of a disaster. See:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gZK0tW8EhQ
if you want the gory details.