Evolutionary Computation Glossary

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ZEN NAVIGATION:

A methodology with tremendous propensity to get lost during a hike from A to B. ZEN NAVIGATION simply consists in finding something that looks as if it knew where it is going to and follow it. The results are more often surprising than successful, but it's usually being worth for the sake of the few occasions when it is both.

Sometimes zen navigation is referred to as "doing scientific research," where A is a state of mind being considered as pre-PhD, and B (usually a different) state of mind, known as post-PhD. While your time spent in state C, somewhere inbetween A and B, is usually referred to as "being a nobody."


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Hitch Hiker's Guide to Evolutionary Computation, Issue 5.4, released 20 December 1997
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