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I'm somewhat reminded of Bayesian Networks, which may be drawn as regular graphs with directed edges connecting a parent to a child, but which mathematically co
by epistasis 3y ago
I'm somewhat reminded of Bayesian Networks, which may be drawn as regular graphs with directed edges connecting a parent to a child, but which mathematically consist of one hyper edge per node, joining all parents and childz (In a process oddly called "moralization," though this term would suggest that polygamy is somehow moral, and thay any set of parents can only have a single child... I'm not sure of the true source of the term, honestly)
Of course, Bayesian networks are acyclic, which hinders many conceptual applications.
- zmgsabst 3y agoYou often do that when encoding hypergraphs: store it as the graph of the construction.
- teleforce 3y agoJust wondering what is particularly immoral about the principle and the practice of polygamy, and mind you it's not a form of slavery? The normal practice of polygamy of single husband many wives has been practiced since the time immemorial and it's not condemned as immoral in all religious scriptures. For example Abraham as a great grandfather of Christian, Islam and Judaism religion is well known to have two wives with Ishak and Ismail are two sons from different wives. In fact I do believe that where polygamy are legally practiced the divorce rate is significantly lower but then I'm not the expert in sociology field. Don't get me wrong divorce is not immoral or sin, is just that it create a non-conducive upbringing environment for the children.
- epistasis 3y agoIn the social environment where Bayesian networks were invented, polygamy is taboo, so "moralization" is an odd term for a situation like that, or so I thought. The rest of the direction of your comment appears to diverge pretty far afield, but so was my aside.