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Hope, Not Optimism

Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com

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The Ant in Computer Science

The real world has so many confounding factors, contradictory impulses and unknowable hidden variables. In computer science, it's normal to solve complex problems non deterministically. Rather than computing the best route through a complex problem, we compute a good enough route through the data. To understand how hill climbing s think of an ant trying to find high ground.

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