I looked up the Prof Hunan Mansoor, and among his list of achievements was the 'Sanguine Algorithm'. I supposed that this could be the same for the type of puzzle (river crossing notwithstanding) so I googled it. The results were mostly to do with Perplex City except one
http://www.interweavers.com/brett/humor/cogsci-jokes.html
As you can see from the address, it's jokey etc... I haven't read it deeply enought to get the joke if there really is one. I just scanned the text for any reference to the Sanguine Algorithm. Here is the reference, for more, go the page itself. I'm afraid, I'm not techinically minded enough to understand what is being said, so I thought I'd post it and let you guys figure it out.
Happy reading!
''Using the Sanguine Algorithm, a
network with only two hidden units rapidly converges to a soft
error functional. Of course, the network has no idea of what
value will come next; however, the happiness function shows it is
quite blissful in its ignorance. We propose that this technique
will have wide application in Republican approaches to
government. ''

Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2005 3:24 pm