I was doing a bit of serendipitous blog-surfing when I came across an entry briefly explaining genetic algorithms’ iterative exploration process. The explanation was followed by this:
You could probably do this without a computer, but man would that suck.
And that’s all the facts when you come to brass tacks.
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so this is what you spend your time doing…OTHER than your thesis…no wonder its going very slowly!!!! but Lucy and i have enjoyed your website and we think its very cool! Fab gave us the vanity fair picture…it was a very odd week! see you soon! ( i think they should ban all traffic on the G. pultney St, and bring back the horses!)-much more fun, if not entirely practical…
us again, we were looking at nov 20th 2000….wondered what they were…???
That list was called the “minimalist.” What mirth! I must dig it out of my old laptop sometime. It wasn’t particularly exciting though, just a long list of small things, like soap. It was merely an excercise in reduction. I bet what I consider necessary for a comfortable life has changed since then.