Thought provoking, but to those of us with less mathematical knowledge (I had never heard about simulated annealing and definitely didn't know it was the path to happiness !! :P ) it sounds like you smoked something :P<p>Advice I liked:
- "Leave the comfort of your local minimum"
- "consider every possible idea, belief, and value no matter how crazy or wrong they seem at first" (ok, I admit I sometimes dismiss stuff that's TOO crazy - after all I don't have infinte time!! (yet :P )
- Trying to remove biases and beliefs (and man.. is that hard)