I need Matt: (Introduction)

by David Turell , Thursday, September 02, 2010, 23:47 (5195 days ago) @ xeno6696


> To guide you when you see similar papers in the future: Ask yourself if they formally define 2 functions. If they only declare one, check assumptions: It wouldn't be unlikely that they'd simply assume a random walk--but it should still be explicitly stated. If they define no functions at all, take it as a definite sign that something is afoot. But in ANY paper defining something as a search function, and it is making an assertion that there isn't enough time, it is essential that they explicitly define the search algorithm, and define a time-complexity function for it--and most importantly--they define it against another function. 
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> Modern biology doesn't look at evolution as a random walk--maybe abiogenesis, but life is clearly some kind of "guided" search function--and before you jump on me there, by "guided" I mean that it looks at its current state and alters it using what it has; clearly a narrowly defined set. The good question is how the set became narrowed.-Matt, I don't know what to ask you about the above. What is a search function? I know the example of random walk, with the drunk trying to make the lamp post from the bar door, but I have no idea how it works. Thanks for trying, but I've never had any math like this, and it's a little too late for college courses.