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> 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 ran
by zmj 6y ago
> 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/jargon/html/koans.html#id3141241 http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/koans.html#id3141241
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