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The universal algorithm

Brennig James (Cherry Orchard, Marlow Common, Buckinghamshire)

Kybernetes

ISSN: 0368-492X

Article publication date: 1 March 1998

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Abstract

Proposes that problems can only be solved by trial and error, since the second law of thermodynamics forbids any other means and that the embodiment of this process is a mechanism called a Boltzmann machine, named in memory of the famous physicist, although he cannot have known of it.

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Citation

James, B. (1998), "The universal algorithm", Kybernetes, Vol. 27 No. 2, pp. 182-189. https://doi.org/10.1108/03684929810795243

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