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[elpa] externals/landmark 2ab5c1c 5/7: * landmark/landmark.el (Commentar
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Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
[elpa] externals/landmark 2ab5c1c 5/7: * landmark/landmark.el (Commentary): Mention algorithm's origin |
Date: |
Tue, 1 Dec 2020 16:15:07 -0500 (EST) |
branch: externals/landmark
commit 2ab5c1c612344373783616c6c2f9f1436ec84de3
Author: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Commit: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
* landmark/landmark.el (Commentary): Mention algorithm's origin
---
landmark.el | 11 +++++++++--
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/landmark.el b/landmark.el
index 9b48901..b1ffd8a 100644
--- a/landmark.el
+++ b/landmark.el
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
;; Copyright (C) 1996-1997, 2000-2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
-;; Author: Terrence Brannon (was: <brannon@rana.usc.edu>)
+;; Author: Terrence Brannon <metaperl@gmail.com>
;; Created: December 16, 1996 - first release to usenet
;; Keywords: games, neural network, adaptive search, chemotaxis
;; Maintainer: emacs-devel@gnu.org
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
;; the smell of the tree increases, then the weights in the robot's
;; brain are adjusted to encourage this odor-driven behavior in the
;; future. If the smell of the tree decreases, the robots weights are
-;; adjusted to discourage a correct move.
+;; adjusted to discourage that odor-driven behavior.
;; In laymen's terms, the search space is initially flat. The point
;; of training is to "turn up the edges of the search space" so that
@@ -51,6 +51,13 @@
;; a single move, one moves east,west and south, then both east and
;; west will be improved when they shouldn't
+;; The source code was developed as part of a course on Brain Theory
+;; and Neural Networks at the University of Southern California. The
+;; original problem description and solution appeared in 1981 in the
+;; paper "Landmark Learning: An Illustration of Associative
+;; Search" authored by Andrew G. Barto and Richard S. Sutton and
+;; published to Biological Cybernetics.
+
;; Many thanks to Yuri Pryadkin <yuri@rana.usc.edu> for this
;; concise problem description.
- [elpa] branch externals/landmark created (now 72f58f0), Stefan Monnier, 2020/12/01
- [elpa] externals/landmark 422d310 1/7: * packages/landmark/landmark.el: Move from Emacs master to ELPA, Stefan Monnier, 2020/12/01
- [elpa] externals/landmark a916e0c 3/7: * csv-mode, landmark: Fix maintainer's email, Stefan Monnier, 2020/12/01
- [elpa] externals/landmark d60a1c1 4/7: Fix some quoting problems in doc strings, Stefan Monnier, 2020/12/01
- [elpa] externals/landmark 2ab5c1c 5/7: * landmark/landmark.el (Commentary): Mention algorithm's origin,
Stefan Monnier <=
- [elpa] externals/landmark 72f58f0 7/7: * .gitignore: New file, Stefan Monnier, 2020/12/01
- [elpa] externals/landmark 616ca3e 6/7: * landmark/landmark.el: Avoid `eval`; plus cosmetic changes, Stefan Monnier, 2020/12/01
- [elpa] externals/landmark 27e2e8d 2/7: * packages/landmark/landmark.el: Add Maintainer header to meet ELPA's requirement, Stefan Monnier, 2020/12/01