Mostly it’s that I’ve found that, while trying to understand optimization, I’ve never needed to put “weights” on the ordering. (Of course, you always could map your ordering onto a monotonically increasing function.)
I think the concept of “trying” mostly dissolves under the kind of scrutiny I’m trying to apply. Or rather, to well-define “trying”, you need a whole bunch of additional machinery that just makes it a different thing than (my concept of) optimization, and that’s not what I’m studying yet.
I’ve also been working entirely in deterministic settings, so there’s no sense of “how often” a thing happens, just a single trajectory. (This also differentiates my thing from Flint’s.)
I haven’t stopped working on the overall project. I do seem to have stopped writing and editing that particular sequence, though. I’m considering totally changing the way I present the concept (such that the current Intro post would be more like a middle-post) so I decided to just pull the trigger on publishing the current state of it. I’m also trying to get more actual formal results, which is more about stuff from the end of that sequence. But I’m pretty behind on formal training, so I’m also trying to generally catch up on math.
Mostly it’s that I’ve found that, while trying to understand optimization, I’ve never needed to put “weights” on the ordering. (Of course, you always could map your ordering onto a monotonically increasing function.)
I think the concept of “trying” mostly dissolves under the kind of scrutiny I’m trying to apply. Or rather, to well-define “trying”, you need a whole bunch of additional machinery that just makes it a different thing than (my concept of) optimization, and that’s not what I’m studying yet.
I’ve also been working entirely in deterministic settings, so there’s no sense of “how often” a thing happens, just a single trajectory. (This also differentiates my thing from Flint’s.)
I haven’t stopped working on the overall project. I do seem to have stopped writing and editing that particular sequence, though. I’m considering totally changing the way I present the concept (such that the current Intro post would be more like a middle-post) so I decided to just pull the trigger on publishing the current state of it. I’m also trying to get more actual formal results, which is more about stuff from the end of that sequence. But I’m pretty behind on formal training, so I’m also trying to generally catch up on math.