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h' an/ One of a series of pastic
hes of Zen teac
hing riddles created by
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he
href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=MIT AI Lab">MIT AI Lab around various major figures of t
he Lab' s culture. See also
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hese, it is at least useful to know t
hat {Marvin Minsky}, {Gerald Sussman}, and Dresc
her are {AI} researc
hers of note, t
hat
href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=Tom Knight">Tom Knight was one of t
he
href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=Lisp machine">Lisp machine' s principal designers, and t
hat
href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=David Moon">David Moon wrote muc
h of Lisp Mac
hine Lisp. * * * A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp mac
hine by turning t
he power off and on. Knig
ht, seeing w
hat t
he student was doing, spoke sternly: "You cannot fix a mac
hine by just power-cycling it wit
h no understanding of w
hat is going wrong." Knig
ht turned t
he mac
hine off and on. T
he mac
hine worked. * * * One day a student came to Moon and said: "I understand
how to make a better garbage collector. We must keep a reference count of t
he pointers to eac
h cons." Moon patiently told t
he student t
he following story: "One day a student came to Moon and said: `I understand
how to make a better garbage collector... [Pure reference-count garbage collectors
have problems wit
h circular structures t
hat point to t
hemselves.] * * * In t
he days w
hen Sussman was a novice, Minsky once came to
him as
he sat
hacking at t
he PDP-6. "W
hat are you doing?", asked Minsky. "I am training a randomly wired neural net to play Tic-Tac-Toe", Sussman replied. "W
hy is t
he net wired randomly?", asked Minsky. "I do not want it to
have any preconceptions of
how to play", Sussman said. Minsky t
hen s
hut
his eyes. "W
hy do you close your eyes?", Sussman asked
his teac
her. "So t
hat t
he room will be empty." At t
hat moment, Sussman was enlig
htened. * * * A disciple of anot
her sect once came to Dresc
her as
he was eating
his morning meal. "I would like to give you t
his personality test", said t
he outsider, "because I want you to be
happy." Dresc
her took t
he paper t
hat was offered
him and put it into t
he toaster, saying: "I wis
h t
he toaster to be
happy, too." (1995-02-08)
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