Sorry for the double posting. Please disregard. Jon Wilson wrote: > Brian Harvey wrote: >> 1. My original point was that the word "progress" automatically puts >> people in the frame of mind that says things should keep changing -- it's >> a very loaded word that distorts people's understanding. Rather than find >> a definition, we should agree to use a more neutral word, such as "change," >> so as not to introduce unexamined presuppositions into the discussion. > If I might invoke the names of my betters, > > > /In the days when Sussman > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Jay_Sussman> was a novice, > Minsky <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Minsky> once came to him > as he sat hacking at the PDP-6 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-6>./ > > "What are you doing?", /asked Minsky./ > "I am training a randomly wired neural net > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_network> to play Tic-tac-toe > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tic-tac-toe>", /Sussman replied./ > "Why is the net wired randomly?", /asked Minsky./ > "I do not want it to have any preconceptions of how to play", > /Sussman said./ > > /Minsky then shut his eyes./ > "Why do you close your eyes?" /Sussman asked his teacher./ > "So that the room will be empty." > /At that moment, Sussman was enlightened./ > > > _______________________________________________ > r6rs-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
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