Author: Derek Mauro
Date: 21:19:24 09/02/01
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On September 02, 2001 at 20:38:56, Peter Berger wrote: >On September 02, 2001 at 20:15:01, Charles Milton Ling wrote: > >>Please note that I am not responsible for the veracity of Mr. Keene's comments, >>nor for any injuries readers may suffer as a consequence of uncontrolled >>laughter. >> >>http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2001-09-01&id=1043 >> >>Charley > >Well - at least this one was quite astonishing for me : > >"Push each letter of HAL forward by one and you’ll soon see where the name HAL >originates. " > >Obvious as it is I had never thought of it before. > >pete Actually Arthur C. Clarke says that the rumor that HAL came from IBM is not true. HAL was supposed to stand for Hueristically programmed ALgorithmic computer. It was programmed to lose 50% of the time. How bout this: "In October, man and machine will again compete at chess. This time, says Raymond Keene, the playing field will be level." I guess giving Kramnik the program months in advance somehow makes it "level". I think Kramnik should be forced to turnover any learning data it acquired. Either way he's still gonna kill it.
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