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Re:The Diffusion of Scientific Discovery by gwern on Saturday June 03, 2023 @07:16PM (#36181439)
A maze can be thought of a series of binary choices, so you'd get a different distribution if you spawn particles from successful ones than from a random walk in 2D. However, I don't think this gets you any better a model of scientific discovery than existing statistical models of combinatorial innovations (https://www.newthingsunderthesun.com/pub/2elwp33m/release/2#...), and it may be the same as some others.

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