On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 09:01:28PM -0500, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
On Mon, 6 Feb 2006, Chris McCormick wrote:
On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 08:40:03PM -0500, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
On Mon, 6 Feb 2006, Chris McCormick wrote:
To me, the most compelling reason to abbreviate the triggers is that it's the closest thing to making them disappear, among the things that I can do without looking like I'm coming straight from the jMaxlavian refugee ghetto.
Hi! Sometimes intelligent design achieves less optimal results than evolution.
Sounds wise but ambiguous. What do you want to say?
I want to say that sometimes intelligently designing a system can acheive a less optimal result than a system which is subjected to a process of evolution.
Ok, now I'm lost. which part of what we were saying corresponds to what you consider to be evolution, and which part corresponds to creationism, and why do you say it.
All software is intelligently designed, but some of it is more subjected to the process of evolution (in the market place) than others.
BTW I'm not USAian enough to understand the subtleties of the new phrase "intelligent design" vs the traditional term "creationism" so please bear with me.
Me neither. I am not from the United States, and not interested in that ridiculous debate.
Now that I think of it, maybe you're saying that both options could be provided and we'd let people decide and let bad features die off. Maybe we would then find that not only people can't decide themselves, but bad features don't die off, and if perchance they do, they come back to haunt us.
Maybe. I am saying that software evolution in the Free market place might be the most effective way to get better software. 'Bad' design might help in not becoming trapped at local maxima. Let's not lop off every inefficiency and quirk immediately because it's not 'good design' - many people use [trigger]s successfully to produce great art and sounds, and trigger might be the tip of an iceberg of new thinking. Perhaps Pd is so successful because it has more character than other similar dataflow environments.
Best,
Chris.
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