Ever since I heard about this, I've also been thinking about the opposite problem. Are there tasks that can't be solved by this type of "distributed tinkering"?
There's an emerging field known as "human computation" / "Games With A Purpose".
I think that a major bottleneck is getting people to share their insights with each other, because our mental languages are so different from each other, even within the same field of expertise. Which is why I love this manifesto by Bret Victor. He really gets it.
how can "clearly also memoryless" be considered rigorous? why is independence a necessary condition?
why can't i say the following (which is obviously false)?:
``X and Y can be thought of as normal random variables; and since they are independent, min(X,Y) arises from the combination of the two processes, which is clearly also normally-distributed."
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I think that a major bottleneck is getting people to share their insights with each other, because our mental languages are so different from each other, even within the same field of expertise. Which is why I love this manifesto by Bret Victor. He really gets it.
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why can't i say the following (which is obviously false)?:
``X and Y can be thought of as normal random variables; and since they are independent, min(X,Y) arises from the combination of the two processes, which is clearly also normally-distributed."
meh.
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