gedanken
/g*-dahn' kn/ Ungrounded impract ICal not well-thought-out untried untested. "Gedanken" is a German word for "thought". A thought experiment is one you carry out in your head. In phys ICs, the term "gedanken experiment" is used to refer to an experiment that is impract ICal to carry out, but useful to consider because it can be reasoned about theoret ICally. (A class IC gedanken experiment of relativity theory involves thinking about a man in an elevator accelerating through space.) Gedanken experiments are very useful in phys ICs, but must be used with care. It' s too easy to idealise away some important aspect of the real world in constructing the "apparatus". Among hackers, accordingly, the word has a pejorative connotation. It is typ ICally used of a project, especially one in artif ICial intelligence research, that is written up in grand detail (typ ICally as a Ph.D. thesis) without ever being implemented to any great extent. Such a project is usually perpetrated by people who aren' t very good hackers or find programming distasteful or are just in a hurry. A "gedanken thesis" is usually marked by an obvious lack of intuition about what is programmable and what is not, and about what does and does not constitute a clear specif ICation of an algorithm. See also AI-complete, DWIM. In addition suitable contents: [ = ] [ ad ] [ AI ] [ ai ] [ AI-complete ] [ al ] [ algorithm ] [ am ] [ an ] [ app ] [ ar ] [ arc ] [ artifICial intelligence ] [ as ] [ aspect ] [ at ] [ au ] [ aw ] [ b ] [ be ] [ bo ] [ bv ] [ by ] [ ca ] [ cat ] [ cc ] [ ch ] [ ci ] [ ck ] [ cl ] [ class ] [ classIC ] [ co ] [ com ] [ complete ] [ con ] [ cons ] [ D ] [ de ] [ ding ] [ do ] [ du ] [ DWIM ] [ ec ] [ ed ] [ ee ] [ er ] [ era ] [ es ] [ et ] [ fi ] [ file ] [ fo ] [ for ] [ G ] [ ge ] [ Gedanken ] [ gen ] [ German ] [ gh ] [ gl ] [ gr ] [ h ] [ hack ] [ hacker ] [ hat ] [ hm ] [ hn ] [ hr ] [ ht ] [ hu ] [ id ] [ ideal ] [ ie ] [ il ] [ import ] [ in ] [ int ] [ io ] [ is ] [ it ] [ jo ] [ ke ] [ ken ] [ ki ] [ kn ] [ la ] [ ld ] [ Lex ] [ li ] [ ls ] [ lv ] [ ly ] [ M ] [ ma ] [ man ] [ mm ] [ mo ] [ mod ] [ module ] [ mp ] [ mu ] [ na ] [ nc ] [ ne ] [ ng ] [ nn ] [ no ] [ ns ] [ om ] [ op ] [ pa ] [ pe ] [ perp ] [ ph ] [ pl ] [ port ] [ pr ] [ program ] [ programming ] [ query ] [ rc ] [ re ] [ real ] [ rl ] [ ro ] [ ru ] [ S ] [ se ] [ si ] [ so ] [ space ] [ spec ] [ specifICation ] [ st ] [ struct ] [ su ] [ sy ] [ taste ] [ test ] [ th ] [ theory ] [ to ] [ tr ] [ tt ] [ ua ] [ ug ] [ up ] [ us ] [ va ] [ ve ] [ vi ] [ word ]
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