[pas]

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=266

""" I went to the hardware store, bought some glass plates, liquid soap, etc., and found that, while Nature does often find a minimum Steiner tree with 4 or 5 pegs, it tends to get stuck at local optima with larger numbers of pegs. """

[usgroup]

:-) Well, nature also makes you, and you solve problems? So by transitivity ...

[defrost]

"Did he try jiggling it a bit, and then less and less and less?"

( Annealing /s )