From: Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: Lars Brinkhoff <lars@nocrew.org>, Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Lisp
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2020 02:11:42 +0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP_d_8U0tz=gwNBKvYynN2g6q+w646U6XMd0GWibqY+GRbVPUA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ebc766b2-aef8-4f83-9fdb-a131f3dbe530@default>
On Sun, 12 Jul 2020 at 00:28, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:
> This is maybe the best part of that article, of which there
> are lots of good parts:
>
> 'Why did you make the net random?' and I said, 'Well, I
> didn't want it to have preconceived misconceptions', and he said,
> 'Well it has them, its just that you don't know what they are.'
ESR (citing Danny Hillis) retells this story differently:
In the days when Sussman was a novice,
Minsky once came to him
as he sat hacking at the PDP-6.
“What are you doing?”, asked Minsky.
“I am training a randomly wired neural net
to play 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.
http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/koans.html
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-11 19:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-09 0:58 Lisp sergio hernandez
2020-07-09 8:31 ` Lisp Eric S Fraga
2020-07-09 9:04 ` Lisp tomas
2020-07-09 8:49 ` Lisp tomas
2020-07-09 8:55 ` (Correction: Re: Lisp) tomas
2020-07-10 3:56 ` Lisp Richard Stallman
2020-07-10 4:03 ` Lisp Mingde (Matthew) Zeng
2020-07-10 7:15 ` Lisp Lars Brinkhoff
2020-07-11 2:17 ` Lisp Richard Stallman
2020-07-11 6:48 ` Lisp Lars Brinkhoff
2020-07-11 15:25 ` Lisp Drew Adams
2020-07-11 16:47 ` Lisp Lars Brinkhoff
2020-07-11 17:27 ` Lisp Drew Adams
2020-07-11 19:11 ` Yuri Khan [this message]
2020-07-11 2:18 ` Lisp Richard Stallman
2020-07-11 16:51 ` Lisp Lars Brinkhoff
2020-07-10 10:31 ` Lisp tomas
2020-07-12 2:03 ` Lisp 황병희
2020-07-12 19:09 ` Lisp sergio hernandez
2020-07-10 13:22 ` Lisp Arthur Miller
2020-07-10 15:49 ` Lisp tomas
2020-07-10 5:39 ` Lisp Jean Louis
2020-07-11 2:21 ` Lisp Richard Stallman
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