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This seems like a really hard version of the credit assignment problem -- if you open to chapter 20 and get some differential equation that you can't solve, the
by shanusmagnus 10y ago
This seems like a really hard version of the credit assignment problem -- if you open to chapter 20 and get some differential equation that you can't solve, then what's the search strategy, other than read chapter 20? Which would make no sense if you hadn't read chapter 19, etc. Or so it seems -- I haven't actually tried it. Could you elaborate a bit on the process? I like the engagement and the 'information chase' aspect of it...
- feklar 10y agoFound the original post that explains the algorithm better: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=665250 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=665250 It is hard if the book has an incomplete index or poorly named chapters forcing you to skim around.
- csours 10y agoYes, that does sound hard, but you might have to chain all the way back to chapter 1. Often times, chapters are grouped in self-contained blocks.