Coding HighDEAs

Anyone on /prog/ ever smoke marijuana and then start coming up with really great ideas for your code, or just computer science ideas in general?

For example, I got an idea that perhaps a way to implement an A.I. is with a chain of randomly-generated finite state machines, linked together so that one's output becomes another's input, etc. The structure of this chain could be determined by some sort of "DNA" with "genes". Then you could use a genenic algorithm to find better and better genes until the resulting chain of finite state machines exhibits macro behavior in the form of A.I.

>>1 There were two great contributions to modern society that came out of Berkeley in the 60's, one was UNIX (BSD specifically) and the other was LSD.

This is not a coincidence.

UNIX shell scripting and Perl actually make sense when you are stoned. It may be the only state of conciousness where they do make perfect sense.

>>18
Taking acid is not being stoned.