Oh, sorry; I thought this was private between me and Doug. Mea culpa. We were just dissing the physicists.
On Jul 5, 2011, at 5:16 PM, Pamela McCorduck wrote: > Brilliant!!!!!! > > One night Murray Gell-Mann was here for dinner, and said off-handedly, oh, > physicists could solve artificial intelligence in no time if they just put > their minds to it. I nearly went over the table at his throat. And he was my > guest. AI has been the graveyard of more than one physicist, but they usually > just slink away with their tail between their legs, and you never hear about > it. Statisticians, otoh, have actually been a big help. > > > On Jul 5, 2011, at 4:40 PM, Douglas Roberts wrote: > >> http://xkcd.com/793/ >> >> -- >> Doug Roberts >> drobe...@rti.org >> d...@parrot-farm.net >> http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins >> >> 505-455-7333 - Office >> 505-670-8195 - Cell >> >> ============================================================ >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > > > "In humans, the brain is already the hungriest part of our body: at 2 percent > of our body weight, this greedy tapeworm of an organ wolfs down 20 percent of > the calories that we expend at rest." > > Douglas Fox, Scientific American > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org "In humans, the brain is already the hungriest part of our body: at 2 percent of our body weight, this greedy tapeworm of an organ wolfs down 20 percent of the calories that we expend at rest." Douglas Fox, Scientific American
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