https://eller.dreamwidth.org/ eller - Dreamwidth Studios Sun, 01 Dec 2019 20:38:20 GMT LiveJournal / Dreamwidth Studios eller personal https://v2.dreamwidth.org/12583414/3427238 https://eller.dreamwidth.org/ 100 100 https://eller.dreamwidth.org/39555.html Sun, 01 Dec 2019 20:38:20 GMT https://eller.dreamwidth.org/39555.html So, this is basically... a math-y reading recommendation? Prompted by something mostly unrelated in a Discord chat that reminded me of all the ways divination and computer modelling can interconnect. (And not just in the way I use runes and tarot cards for math-y brainstorming; that's not divination at all.) Anyway. One of my favorite publications in recent years is this one:<br />https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7387702<br />It's called &quot;I-Ching Divination Evolutionary Algorithm and its Convergence Analysis&quot; and it's a perfectly serious paper, and one that I want to cite in my own work very badly; I just can't find a justification (yet) for doing so. (The topic is close enough to what I work on, just this type of algorithm I've never implemented, nor will I do so in the foreseeable future. Too bad.) The authors developed their lovely algorithm based on the traditional Chinese divination system of I-Ching which I unfortunately don't know enough about to make any intelligent comments... Just: this is not only creative and fun, but actually <em>good</em> (from the algorithmic side of things).<br /><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=eller&ditemid=39555" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://eller.dreamwidth.org/39555.html divination science computer modelling magic algorithms mathematics public 0