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Re: by westurner on Sunday July 12, 2026 @01:36AM (#48878607)
As well. Someday costed opcodes and sharded redundancy for all of this;

> No search needed because the problem is discrete and small.

If an algorithm selects according to rank, there's a cost/score/fitness/survival/error function (that assumes or imposes a distance metric to make a metric space).

Awhile back I had to match exterior paint to printed paint swatches and I'm stereotypically not good at colors, so finally I arrived at just A/B; this one or this one and discard.

Re: by jarodrh on Sunday July 12, 2026 @09:47AM (#48881211)
> As well. Someday costed opcodes and sharded redundancy for all of this;

Hmm, noted.

> If an algorithm selects according to rank, there's a cost/score/fitness/survival/error function.

- Yes, what I'm saying is that frugon has a small enough candidate pool that it can all be evaluated at the same time. It doesn't need to search through it.

> Awhile back I had to match exterior paint to printed paint swatches and I'm stereotypically not good at colors, so finally I arrived at just A/B; this one or this one and discard.

- This is exactly the shape the judge prompt takes in frugon.

See: src/frugon/measure.py

Then search: JUDGE_PROMPT_TEMPLATE