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On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 12:39:37 -0700, somebody wrote:
> "Invisible" <voi### [at] dev null> wrote in message
> news:49705b89$1@news.povray.org...
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>> I think devising a solution to a problem is basically a search of the
>> problem-space. And that space is pretty huge, so it must be some kind
>> of heuristic search. I hypothesize that certain people just have a
>> slightly faulty heuristic. ;-)
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> I think Scott Adams put the fundamental problem with problem solving
> nicely in a Dilbert cartoon, but if I'm afraid that if I try finding a
> link to it, with my faulty heuristics, it will be in the very last place
> I look before finding it, if at all.
You keep looking once you've found it?
When searching for something, most people stop once they find it - hence
it's in the last place they looked. ;-)
Jim
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