I only loosely comprehend the language used for algorithms but I
   get the 'gist' of them. Anyway, this one, works a lot like my
   brain. +Phil Sierra Jones you put me on a search without
   realizing it perhaps :P - this is an algorithm for scheduling
   tasks in real time embedded systems. Well, I'm a real time
   embedded system :P Min(e) is a neat method for drawing loose
   outlines around things (like trying to draw the coastline of a
   country; you CAN'T get every little beach alcove right the first
   time around.. if at all - so you draw broad lines around it with
   a crayon. The quick but accurate enough-to-work-with outline is
   min(e) What intrigues me about this is that you can go "top
   down" or "bottom up", all depending on whether not there's more
   of a problem on the lower dimensions or the higher. Analogy:
   Cleaning up. Sweep the floor (solve the flat dimension) because
   there's cat foot everywhere, or clean the cobwebs out of the
   corners of the room (the corners being 3-dimensional, the
   joining of roof and two walls, or floor and two walls - 3
   dimensions.. where spiders like to go). All the while, it's
   using the same small chunk of memory to accomplish a variety of
   tasks, depending on the circumstances, but always the same
   goals: simplify a complicated thing by playing a loose form of
   connect-the-dos, shrink it (ie - make a plan, know what to do),
   then move on to the next. This undoubtedly isn't everything this
   algorithm is about, nor is it "my brain"... not at all. But
   remember: our brains are not computers, computers are based upon
   our brains. They're simplifications of our brain in whatever
   ways we comprehend it at this point in time in history. Still,
   not bad. It may be a "novel algorithm" but since I was a kid,
   sitting at the lunch table - they always sent me down early and
   I got to stay late. Why? I ate at the same speed. I didn't care
   about what was happening around me, I was going to eat my food
   at an even pace that I wanted, not gobble, chew and enjoy
   thoroughly, even if the bell rang. My meal eating sorting
   method? "Worst First, Best Last". I'd eat the food I hated the
   most first and work my way towards the food I liked the best as
   a reward. This is a worst-first / best last algorithm.. Of
   course, once the food was chewed, the data locked in the food is
   uncompressed so that my body could get the proteins, and further
   break THOSE down and uncompress the amino acids within... etc.
   etc. Oh well. Nice algorithm. It's all poetry to me. I don't
   have to understand every nugget to appreciate the heck out of
   something I recognize and this, looks like me to
   me.[1]type_assign_algorithm

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