JOB: "Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book." GOD: *sighs* GOD: "so if i say 'simulated annealing' you're probably not going to get it, i guess"
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(I still don't know what "escaping local maxima" means)
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it could stop with the “death of loved ones” experiment I feel like we’ve tried that one enough times
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probably we can dispense with it once it's been run at every point in the phase space of these *looks at scribbled writing on hands* 1e93 variables
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It's just chance. It happeneth to us all. (Ecclesiastes)
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“We live in an ancestor simulation.” “No you fool — it’s a descendant nursery! Do you know how much damage you can do in our reality? Our iPhone equivalent can nuke solar systems. Gotta forge good souls before spinning them up for real.”
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one of my favourite SF short stories with a similar take http://galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html …
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You're lucky Voltaire died long ago or he would have written an entire book parodying this tweet where candid is getting his life destroyed over and over again trying to escape local maxima by hitting worse and worse local maxima points
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"Well maybe I'm in jail but at least I have food and water here... but professor Pangloss said there always might be something better outside!" * Candide escapes from the jail and gets run over by a truck *
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