> 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

> 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 http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/koans.html