12 - Introducing the Cut

We start a new theme on "the cut", seen as a difficult topic that needs caution. In this video we take a very small first step by observing the behaviour of the cut in a very minimal example, and talk about what the cut appears to be doing - preventing further backtracking. 00:00 Initial Tests 06:18 Observing What The Cut Does 09:23 Search Tree 12:54 What The Cut Doesn't Do Blog: https://prologbyexample.blogspot.com/2023/02/12-introducing-cut.html Code on GitHub: https://github.com/prologbyexample/code –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– The following pieces of music are freely licensed for use in this video. Gymnopedie No 3 by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100785 Artist: http://incompetech.com/