Re: Robust Algorithms

From: David Longley (David_at_longley.demon.co.uk)
Date: 12/25/04

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    In article <1103914076.974987.141010@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
    sologen@yahoo.com writes
    >Hi!
    >
    >It is difficult for me to move along this interesting(!) discussion. I
    >don't know anything about any people good or bad behavior and these
    >kinds of arguments are completely new for me! :D
    >However, I have an idea the Robust Algorithms and related stuff ... Can
    >we see a "program" as a kind of "impulsive control" in solution space?!
    >Bests,
    >Amir massoud Farahmand
    >
    Yes we can but I'm not sure how much it helps. People use different
    terms for all of this in all sorts of subjects and generally don't see
    how each other end up talking about essentially the same thing. It
    basically seems to come down to the difference between what some folk in
    psychology call "clinical" or "intuitive" judgement (or
    "decision-making", i.e. the contingencies which shape our naturally
    "intelligent" behaviour as opposed to what is called "actuarial" or
    "extensional" judgement ie what we call "rule governed" behaviour. Our
    natural behaviours are best modelled (extensionally mind you) by
    non-linear functions which make much of our behaviour appear paradoxical
    or irrational from a normative perspective.

    Our rule governed behaviour is essentially *verbal* behaviour in one
    form or another, and the most rigorous form is that familiar to people
    reading these pages is formal programing languages and the extensional,
    class based, language which constitutes science more generally. We use
    all of this to manage our behaviour which tends to be somewhat
    "impulsive" and irrational.

    See below and the associated papers for applications on a larger scale
    than many folk reading these threads generally care to think in terms
    of:

    http://www.longley.demon.co.uk/Frag.htm

    Some recent examples of exchanges on this:

    <http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=VGcqAAUI7jvBFwUQ@longley.demon.co.u
    k>

    <http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=J3f98QCGD3vBFwUb@longley.demon.co.u
    k> 

    -- 
David Longley
http://www.longley.demon.co.uk
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