new function operator inhibition

The idea is, given a superposition, try to increase the difference between the top most ket and the rest. I don't yet know when it will be useful, but it seems it might be, and it was only a couple of lines of code.

How does it work? Well, you feed in a parameter that specifies how much to suppress the smaller terms.

-- define a superposition:
sa: |list> => |a> + 5.2|b> + 23|c> + 13|d> + 17|e> + 17|f> + 15|g>

-- suppress everything except the biggest term:
sa: inhibition[1] "" |list>
0|a> + 0|b> + 23|c> + 0|d> + 0|e> + 0|f> + 0|g>

-- inhibit at half strength:
sa: inhibition[0.5] "" |list>
0.5|a> + 2.6|b> + 23|c> + 6.5|d> + 8.5|e> + 8.5|f> + 7.5|g>

-- negative inhibit (ie, suppress the biggest term):
sa: inhibition[-1] "" |list>
2|a> + 10.4|b> + 23|c> + 26|d> + 34|e> + 34|f> + 30|g>

-- and again:
sa: inhibition[-1]^2 "" |list>
4|a> + 20.8|b> + 46|c> + 52|d> + 34|e> + 34|f> + 60|g>

-- and again:
sa: inhibition[-1]^3 "" |list>
8|a> + 41.6|b> + 92|c> + 104|d> + 68|e> + 68|f> + 60|g>

Hopefully that makes some sense.

Update: inhibition[-1]^k may be one way to approach the idea of creativity. When thinking of a problem, the obvious, boring, answer will have higher coefficient. But if we suppress the highest few coefficients, then maybe we have something more creative. Of course, we need some way to test the proposed solution satisfies the required properties. I'm not yet sure the way to implement this, but it seems to be something that the brain makes heavy use of. Posing questions, and then hunting for answers with the right properties.

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updated: 19/12/2016
by Garry Morrison
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