Sniffnoy comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 6

Sniffnoy 3 Dec 2010 5:25 UTC
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I think the joke is that you wrote “stimulated annealing” rather than “simulated annealing”.
- erratio 3 Dec 2010 5:43 UTC
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  Oh! I always that was a valid alternate spelling of the same word. My bad.
  - Paul Crowley 3 Dec 2010 13:44 UTC
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    Almost unrelated words. From thefreedictionary.com: simulate stimulate.