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I wish I had come across this book when learning prolog for my "Intro to AI" class. Far more useful than the nearly insane Grad Student that "taught" us the la
by cydonian_monk 15y ago
I wish I had come across this book when learning prolog for my "Intro to AI" class. Far more useful than the nearly insane Grad Student that "taught" us the language. I learned more about how broken the human mind can become than I ever did about prolog or AI concepts.
- __rkaup__ 15y agoYou can't just not tell us more. How was his mind "broken".
- ThaddeusQuay 15y agoBut more importantly: Did someone try to use Prolog to mend it?
- cydonian_monk 15y agoOne strange dude. His shoelace came untied once in class, so he tied it around his pant leg to "show it who's boss." The whole experience was simply strange. We agreed as a class that exposure to pure logic must have rewired his mind to give the illogical processes priority over everything else.
- __rkaup__ 15y agoHmm. This is one of those cases where I want to know more, but I know that knowing more would only depress me. It's scary knowing you or a loved one could turn out like this. I hope he's better now.
- cydonian_monk 15y agoI don't think he was "broken" so severely that he couldn't function. But there were definitely some cracks in his psyche. Made for a slightly confusing course. As I recall he still finished his post-graduate research, and is presumably and hopefully now a productive member of society. (Though there are many of my fellow alumni from that timeframe that aren't working in anything related to our fields, having the benefit of graduating during the dot-bomb fallout and the Enron/AA mess. Our "career fairs" that year were... entertainingly silent, to say the least.)
- mahmud 15y agothat stupid lace had it coming.
- DennisMerritt 15y agoThanks for the kind words, I found this site after trying to figure out why there were a bunch of hits all of a sudden.