[PD] wanna get drunk?

[Charles Henry]

hillarious
I like that a lot :)

On 8/4/07, Andy Farnell <padawan12 at obiwannabe.co.uk> wrote:
>
>
> I had a few ideas on this Chuck, perhaps you can distil some
> algorithms out of them,
>
> [tipsy bang x y]
>
> Increasing but non-monotonic, [tipsy] behaves like a regular counter but
> occasionally jumps backwards or forwards from one bar to another by x with
> a probability y
>
> [stumble bang x y]
>
> [stumble] Increasing but gin and tonic. Behaves like a regular counter but
> occasionally lurches forwards at an increased rate after passing a bar, by
> factor x with probability y - sometimes sings in the street
>
>
> [leary slap x y z]
>
> Follows the attractor (mimsy) value x staggering around with probability y and
> leariness z. The leariness factor sets the probability that it is within the
> vacinity of x attempting to find a saddle point on x's curves - slapping
> throws it out of the current bar, but it never gets banged.
>
> [sozzled bang x y]
>
> Spends most of its time on the floor x, but gets up and moves to the next bar with
> probability y
>
>
> [shitfaced bang x y ]
>
> Tries to start fight with x, falls on floor y, performs brownian motion in
> its pants, vomits. Doesn't move after that.
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, 3 Aug 2007 11:51:24 -0500
> "Charles Henry" <czhenry at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On 8/3/07, chris clepper <cgclepper at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On 8/3/07, Steffen Leve Poulsen <slagmark at worldonline.dk> wrote:
> > > > OK what about [walk] ?
> > >
> > > [stagger]
> > > [stumble]
> > > [tipsy]
> > > [blotto]
> > >
> >
> > LOL
> > I never did care much for the term "drunkard's walk."  It's pretty old
> > fashioned.  Also, not descriptive enough.  We're talking about Markov
> > processes or Brownian motion, here.... and there are differences... I
> > would recommend addressing the technical specs with a concise/accurate
> > abstraction name, and then wrap it up into a more-user-friendly name,
> > like [blotto], that can handle the best default values, and is more
> > memorable than say d_markov_walk or c_brownian....
> > e.g.
> > Is it discrete (integer based) or continuous (real/rational)?
> >
> > maybe there should be distinctions or a parameter to tell the difference?
> >
> > d_walk  -- discrete random walk
> > c_walk  -- continuous random walk
> >
> > walk d
> > walk c
> >
> > etc....
> >
> > Chuck
> >
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