:) I'm guessing you might have wanted to sloganize that as: "DC's are algebraic" https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/42431/how-to-tell-if-an-effect-i

:) I'm guessing you might have wanted to sloganize that as: "DC's are algebraic" https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/42431/how-to-tell-if-an-effect-is-algebraic https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/42431/how-to-te... This reverse flash might be what could motivate me to make the connection useful.. an exercise in geometric vengeance (and intuition building) for me to use backtracking DCs in optimization problems (engineering => SDP/IPs)? now to find a plug-and-chug example.. A bunch of timely puns here, including "thermometer continuations" https://arxiv.org/pdf/1710.10385 https://arxiv.org/pdf/1710.10385 Besides negative T occuring in situations where the arrow of t appears reversed..., PG13 "exponentials turn products into sums" There is also the pun where S stands for both "action" and "entropy" so that's another direction in which to hunt for the Lagrange multiplier/Lagrangian-Hamiltonian connecting unicorn e.g. picking the "most representative", not necessarily the most optimal path.