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Date: Wed, 25 Dec 1996 08:35:28 -0500
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From: "A. Padgett Peterson P.E. Information Security"
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Subject: Re: Dinkum Thinkums
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>From my college days... Have you tried Descartes?
Prefer Robin Williams: "I think therefore you is." Those in college tend to put Descartes before the horse.
However, the human mind has been designed over years of survival to be adaptable. It is capable of both automatic response to stimuli (as a computer) and to synthesize new responses (fuzzy logic ?).
This might be analogous to designing a problem about end states rather than running through criteria to discover what the end state might be - something analogous to creating a spreadsheet in which the bottom line is a fixed value and the real variables are in the middle.
Early chess playing computers simply ran through all possible combinations and had no way of telling what the best outcome would be until the end of each was reached, assigned a value, and compared to all other end-states.
Add in the fact that chess has no range of outcomes, only three count - winning, losing, and draw. Outcomes such as winning with maximum remaining power has no value even though it would in real life.
There are really two major difficulties in working with massively parallel computers: defining the boundaries and assigning the tasks. The human brain seems to do this very well. Von Neumann computers do not.
May the great Hippo join you this Holliday,
P.fla
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From: "A. Padgett Peterson P.E. Information Security"
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Subject: Re: Dinkum Thinkums
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>From my college days... Have you tried Descartes?
Prefer Robin Williams: "I think therefore you is." Those in college tend to put Descartes before the horse.
However, the human mind has been designed over years of survival to be adaptable. It is capable of both automatic response to stimuli (as a computer) and to synthesize new responses (fuzzy logic ?).
This might be analogous to designing a problem about end states rather than running through criteria to discover what the end state might be - something analogous to creating a spreadsheet in which the bottom line is a fixed value and the real variables are in the middle.
Early chess playing computers simply ran through all possible combinations and had no way of telling what the best outcome would be until the end of each was reached, assigned a value, and compared to all other end-states.
Add in the fact that chess has no range of outcomes, only three count - winning, losing, and draw. Outcomes such as winning with maximum remaining power has no value even though it would in real life.
There are really two major difficulties in working with massively parallel computers: defining the boundaries and assigning the tasks. The human brain seems to do this very well. Von Neumann computers do not.
May the great Hippo join you this Holliday,
P.fla
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