Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 11:19:50 05/25/98
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On May 25, 1998 at 14:10:55, Thorsten Czub wrote: >On May 25, 1998 at 11:50:51, Don Dailey wrote: >>I complain about your posts because sometimes I feel that >>you make it appear you are the creative one and everyone else is in >>a rut, locked into an inflexible point of view. > >Exactly the opposite is true. I am in no way productive. >I am only somebody who want to keep the TALK about alternative ideas >open. >Whenever I met programmers, i feel the need of unknown amateurs to try >out OWN and crude ideas. But than they say: oh - all the others do it >like bob, or Fritz. Maybe I should better do it the same way.... > >This is what makes me sad. >If anybody copies each other, variance will reduce. this is not necessarily true... if someone starts off blind... they are going to repeat 10+ years of old research, to reach th epoint of today's programs... *then* they may split off into some new ideas... So it makes *no* sense to start off in a vacuum... that mistake has been made many times, and generally leads to the concept of "reinventing the wheel." I believe *everyone* is trying new things... I'm just starting from full-width and going one way... while people like Chris start at the "end" and work backward. We may well meet in the middle one day, for all I know. >I am reading a book by Edward O. Wilson in the moment, about : >The diversity of Life. >I don't want you to feel like I would invent something. >Sorry. It was Nitsche, not me. It is maybe Chris. >I do only work with these programs, playing games and studying their >behaviour. >Sorry for the misunderstanding. > >> But even the most >>brute force of all (Deep Blue), has done innovative experiments that >>are interesting and forward thinking (like singular extensions.) All >>the good programmers are solid engineers, intelligent and looking >>for what works. I dare say most of them are quite imaginitive too, >>you should not express so much contempt for them. >> >>- Don > >I do not express contempt for programmers. >I like them.
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