Re: OT: How far we have come
On 2 May 2004, at 13:24, irv mullins wrote:
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> posted by: irv mullins <irvm at ellijay.com>
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> Kat wrote:
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> > On 2 May 2004, at 10:36, irv mullins wrote:
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> > > First of all, where would the computer obtain the info that a chicken has
> > > two legs, and a pig four?
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> > > Further, I wonder what would have happened if you changed "chickens" to
> > > "ducks" or "geese". Would it have then been unable to solve the problem?
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> > I wonder if the lights are coming on yet as to why a large database and
> > multiple programmers and computers are needed.
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I found a site which allows just any-ole-body to update a computer's
database of known world-facts. I found i had to write the following emailt o
them:
Greetings,
Just for a lark, i tried
<url removed for those of you who run wierd email clients>
and found to my (small) surprise, someone had told the computer "cats are
not expensive" and "cars do not jump"! White Siberian cats are very
expensive, so are some pedigreed purebreds of the more tame varieties. And
a trip to Los Angeles will find a competition involving cars jumping in various
fashions (to music and other patterns), where a jump from a standing stop
"crouch" to it landing on it's back, is considered to be a default competition
winner. (In case you wonder, the shocks are replaced with hydraulic
cylinders. Some are computer controlled in a way that the cars appear to
walk, rendering this somewhat false too: "A car can walk down the
street (is false)")
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Kat
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