Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Bellman Bleg

Posted by dkuehn at 1:27 PM
There are a lot of pithy restatements of Bellman's principle - I'm looking for a good one to use in this paper. The best one I can find is Aris (1964) which is still a little clunky (although fun): “If you don’t do the best with what you happen to have got, you’ll never do the best you might have done with what you should have had”

Does anyone know a more accessible restatement?

4 comments:

  1. HedlundApril 17, 2013 at 9:22 PM

    That one is fine as it is, IMO. No need to go with a "cleaner" (i.e., more dull) version; enjoy the absurdity of language and make it fun.

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  2. MinApril 18, 2013 at 5:45 AM

    Well, it's cute. But it does not mean what I found after a web search. Which is close to the proverb:

    "A chain is only as strong as its weakest link."

    Maybe you have a different principle in mind.

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    1. MinApril 18, 2013 at 11:53 PM

      Looking at the cute version again, it does not say that it is talking about a sequence.

      Assuming that we are talking about the same thing, the following is succinct.

      Every subsequence of an optimal sequence is optimal.

      :)

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