[FRIAM] Graal VM

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Sat Feb 22 16:33:02 EST 2020



On 2/22/20 8:33 AM, Steven A Smith wrote:
> Thanks for the disambiguation...  in my vocabulary/experience I think
> what you are calling "installed triggers" are what I call "heuristics",

Well, for me, a heuristic is an *action* not a trigger. It's a response to a trigger. A trigger is a circumstance ... a condition that obtains. E.g. in a programming language, you might have something like if (x==2) then g(x); else h(x). Here "x==2" would be the trigger and g() or h() are the reactions. Perhaps h() is a heuristic algorithm and g() is an analytic solution.

Of course, it's entirely plausible to have something like: while (x != 2) { x=h(x); }, which convolves the trigger with the heuristic. And I suspect something like that is a normal way to think about heuristics in the learning/psych sense. 

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