On 18.01.2013, at 00:45, David Barbour <dmbarbour_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> The issue wasn't whether local state is sufficient for modeling, but rather for abstraction and upgrade (or live programming). It is easy to abstract and parameterize stateful actor networks, then instantiate them. But it is difficult to apply updates to those abstractions or parameters to the networks so instantiated. And while I haven't used Max (only perused it some), I suspect it isn't very strong for abstraction.
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> If we desire *both* rich abstraction *and* live programming - simultaneously, for the same program - I think we need to limit use of local state.
Btw. this was the topic of the ICMC paper "Algorithms Today" (partly in a different terminology though). Proxies in SC have precisely this purpose, they are links between in time and out of time, and are one possible solution to the algorithmic complementarity involved.
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