On Wed, 20 Oct 2004, Tom Schouten wrote:
the whole idea is, that most systems made by man can be factored. at least if the maker was thinking and not just acting incrementally intuitive. in this light, thinking is pruning: cutting wires.
I recently was working with an algorithm that was exactly doing that. Finding communities in complex networks. We could imlement it in Pd and add a button "Clean up", which would take over the tedious thinking part :)
Guenter
this means the structure looks like: (1) very closely connected modules (spaghetti) (2) reasonably interconnect between the modules
this is how OO works for example. information hiding is actually spaghetti hiding in practice.
in fact most computer programs have this structure. the second step is absolutely necessary if you want to understand what you've been doing. if you can't add that level of organization, what you are doing might be incomprehensible voodoo anyway. and this is not necessarily a bad thing. pd sort of promotes this i think.
in fact, this 2 part structure, or a recursion thereof, can be found in most structures that are built by any evolutionary (incremental mutate + test) process. i.e. math, the unix kernel, the human brain, the rest of the human body, etc..
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