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Re:Climbing the wrong hill (2009) by madamelic on Monday April 17, 2017 @02:22PM (#14133182)
Why not just live day-to-day on whether you are happy rather than critiquing whether you are on "the right hill".
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Re:Climbing the wrong hill (2009) by dheera on Monday April 17, 2017 @06:45PM (#14135079)
And what do you do when you are not happy? Go uphill (and it may be the wrong hill) or drop yourself randomly on new hills every day? Both are suboptimal. You should do a bit of both. Like go uphill 80% of the time and test random points 20% of the time.
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Re:Climbing the wrong hill (2009) by TeMPOraL on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @06:43AM (#14146797)
That's the "exploration vs. exploitation" problem.

C.f. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-armed_bandit.

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