Thibaud Roy

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The Climb

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A boulder at the foot of a hill.

The gods sentenced Sisyphus to roll a boulder up a hill, forever.

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Push.

Take a small step uphill. Check that things got better. Repeat.

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At the top he sees where it will go.

A local maximum. Every way from here is down.

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He runs ahead to stop it.

He cannot.

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It goes into the sea.

He sits down. The standard fix for a local maximum is a random restart: begin again somewhere else.

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