May 6, 2009

Hamming And Randomness

I read today in a book called "Numerical Methods For Scientists And Engineers" by the famous R.W. Hamming:

When things are equally favorable, then it is often desirable to make a random choice - this, for example, will tend to defeat the opponent who tries to play the same opening repeatedly until he finds a weakness in the formulas used by the machine.

I find this approach to be working fairly well in my war against "the man". I would suggest random acts of randomness for readers of this blog.

Maybe I mean don't use the same ideology over and over again. There's ruts. Ruts are no good. Home's not a rut.

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