Re: The n-knights problem

Dear Lash,

This reminds me of the old lateral thinking puzzle: "A man has a piece of
paper upon which is written the winning numbers for next week's lotto.
Yet, even if he played, he'd have no better chance of winning than anyone
else. Why?"

Do you mean A4 or letter? What font size?

;-)

Ciao,

Bill

P. S. You wrote:

Yet, human methods scale much better with problem complexity than
GP does. It occurred to me one of the reasons for that is: humans are
able to frame what they're doing in logic, and use deductions (and
inductions) to prune away large, fruitless areas of the answer space.
Thus, my interest in the "pure logic" approach. (Of course, humans also
use "lossier" heuristics, like the ever-mysterious "intuition." I
figured I'd start with logic since people can at least agree on the
definition of that. :) )

I don't think that humans are that logical. You might enjoy reading
Fauconnier. As for computers, you might check out SOAR and ACT-R.

.

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