Comments on: To earn my bread, at last http://williamtozier.com/slurry/2006/01/04/to-earn-my-bread-at-last Pontification without all the gritty gravitas Sun, 12 Oct 2008 12:49:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Health http://williamtozier.com/slurry/2006/01/04/to-earn-my-bread-at-last#comment-1813 Health Mon, 04 Sep 2006 12:04:44 +0000 http://williamtozier.com/slurry/?p=243#comment-1813 I’m imagining some kind of inferential dynamic programming where the policy is continually updated (using the incomplete information available) to reflect some local optimal policy rather than a global optimum. I’m imagining some kind of inferential dynamic programming where the policy is continually updated (using the incomplete information available) to reflect some local optimal policy rather than a global optimum.

]]> By: Branko Collin http://williamtozier.com/slurry/2006/01/04/to-earn-my-bread-at-last#comment-298 Branko Collin Thu, 05 Jan 2006 03:56:19 +0000 http://williamtozier.com/slurry/?p=243#comment-298 Duh! You know when you're done when you send the bill. Duh! You know when you’re done when you send the bill.

]]> By: Tozier http://williamtozier.com/slurry/2006/01/04/to-earn-my-bread-at-last#comment-296 Tozier Wed, 04 Jan 2006 17:01:19 +0000 http://williamtozier.com/slurry/?p=243#comment-296 Keep them on the edge of their seats, they say. ;) Keep them on the edge of their seats, they say. ;)

]]> By: Ken Muldrew http://williamtozier.com/slurry/2006/01/04/to-earn-my-bread-at-last#comment-295 Ken Muldrew Wed, 04 Jan 2006 16:58:19 +0000 http://williamtozier.com/slurry/?p=243#comment-295 "Complicated" is a lot harder than "complex", but that doesn't make complexity simple. There just aren't any good ways to analyze nonlinear systems in toto. But maybe if you are willing to build things that you cannot understand, analysis isn't needed anyway. But then, how do you know what to build (never mind when you are done)? Do we just let magic loose in the world and hope that natural selection remains kind to us as our inventions find their own quasi-optimal path in the world? I guess I'm really confused as to what you mean by "design". At the moment I'm imagining some kind of inferential dynamic programming where the policy is continually updated (using the incomplete information available) to reflect some local optimal policy rather than a global optimum. Probably that's not even remotely close to what you're writing about, so I'm eagerly awaiting further exposition. “Complicated” is a lot harder than “complex”, but that doesn’t make complexity simple. There just aren’t any good ways to analyze nonlinear systems in toto. But maybe if you are willing to build things that you cannot understand, analysis isn’t needed anyway. But then, how do you know what to build (never mind when you are done)? Do we just let magic loose in the world and hope that natural selection remains kind to us as our inventions find their own quasi-optimal path in the world?

I guess I’m really confused as to what you mean by “design”. At the moment I’m imagining some kind of inferential dynamic programming where the policy is continually updated (using the incomplete information available) to reflect some local optimal policy rather than a global optimum. Probably that’s not even remotely close to what you’re writing about, so I’m eagerly awaiting further exposition.

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