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Re: OT: How far we have come

• Posted by Rolf Schroeder <rolf at rschr.de> May 02, 2004
• 429 views

It depends how far prepared the input for a machine has to be. The best
would be one could simply speak to the machine like to a more or less
intelligent human beeing.

I like to solve this without any machine:

Let C and P be the number of chickens and pigs.

The sum of legs will be:              2*C + 4*P = 100 .
The number of C is 3*P, C = 3*P, or:    C - 3*P =  0  .

This may be written as a matrix equation:

     | 2   4 |   | C |   | 100 |
     |       | * |   | = |     |
     | 1  -3 |   | P |   |  0  | .

By multiplying this from left with the inverse matrix it follows:

     | C |       | 3   4 |   | 100 |   | 30 |
     |   | = 0.1*|       | * |     | = |    |
     | P |       | 1  -2 |   |  0  |   | 10 | ,

so we find 30 chickens and 10 pigs.

This is only one way to solve it. Do you need a machine to invert
the matrix?

Have a nice day, Rolf


irv mullins wrote:

On 1 May 2004, at 8:28, irv mullins wrote:




Looking thru some old magazine clippings, I found this ad (circa 1982)
--
8080 & Z 80 Users
Natural Language is here!

Can your computer read and solve this problem by itself?

"On their vacation, Tom and Dick visited a farm. While there, they
noticed a pen containing chickens and pigs. Tom said there were 3 times
as many chickens as pigs. Dick said he counted 100 legs in the pen.
How many chickens were in the pen?"

With NLOS/1, it can!

NLOS/1 is a cassette-based system requiring a minimum of 12k, a
serial I/O board and any cassette interface. The system comes with
a fully documented seet of assembly language source listings. The cost
is only $200.

Stop programming your computer, educate it!
Order today!

CYBERMATE
Nazareth, PA

--
Assuming this was not an outright scam (with the answer to this one
question pre-programmed) do you think that could have been done in
< 12k bytes 20 years ago? Or, for that matter, can it be done in 2004?

No.

In 2004, everyone is going it alone. I know of several people 
duplicating work
in did in the early 90's, rather than work with me. Hi! I'm 47 years old.
Besides, they figure by being the first, they can have all the riches 
of making
an Ai all to themselves. Humans don't listen to each other, what makes 
you
think they will listen to a machine?

Kat