Tabu Search, and other stuff

[Elizabeth Bates]

It is clear that the connectionist list has gotten very large, and it
now includes people at very different levels of expertise (including
people like me who couldn't do a serious simulation if you put a gun
to our heads, but still are interested in the basic ideas and the way
that they are developing over a short period of time).  I understand
Touretzky's frustration with amateurs, and naive questions, but I thnk
the community will be better off in the long run if you (we?) can tolerate
a little more naivete, for a little longer.  Important things are happening,
and this medium is an important event in its own right.  Let's stretch
the limits a little longer, at the risk of putting up with a few more
irritating messages in our daily logs than we might otherwise prefer.
"in groups" abound.  Generous and free-spirited exercises do not. -liz bates