gedanken
/g*-dahn' kn/ Unground ed impractical not well-thought-out untri ed untest ed. "G edanken" is a German word for "thought". A thought experiment is one you carry out in your head. In physics, the term "g edanken experiment" is us ed to refer to an experiment that is impractical to carry out, but useful to consider because it can be reason ed about theoretically. (A classic g edanken experiment of relativity theory involves thinking about a man in an elevator accelerating through space.) G edanken experiments are very useful in physics, but must be us ed 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 typically us ed of a project, especially one in artificial intelligence research, that is written up in grand detail (typically as a Ph.D. thesis) without ever being implement ed to any great extent. Such a project is usually perpetrat ed by people who aren' t very good hackers or find programming distasteful or are just in a hurry. A "g edanken thesis" is usually mark ed by an obvious lack of intuition about what is programmable and what is not, and about what does and does not constitute a clear specification 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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