RE: VMs: Gordon Rugg in Scientific American

["Don Latham" <djl@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

One of the reasons I was enamored of AI in 1979 and gave it up by 1984.
Don

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Hello,

let me compare the situation using computer lingo. Normal operation is "data
in - data out" - or in the case of wrong input, "garbage in - garbage out".
In the case of program malfunction, we get   "data in - garbage out". When
we  get such situation we double check the  input and the program as well.
Mr. Rugg of course cannot do that - he does not know the  real input nor the
program. He admits he tried his program, but failed to get some reasonable
inpout, so he  smartly shifts his attention and blames the faulty input,
hoping we didn't notice :-).  By shiftng  into "garbage in - garbage out"
mode, he hopes to perform even bigger "miracle" than Kelly, when he changed
lead into gold :-)

Jan

======= At 2004-06-23, 14:29:00 you wrote: =======

>http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa006&colID=1&articleID=0000E3AA-70
E1-10CF-AD1983414B7F0000
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>Any comments?
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>Regards
>Mark
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Best regards.
Jan
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