Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 19:05:04 09/05/02
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On September 05, 2002 at 16:34:29, Rolf Tueschen wrote: >On September 05, 2002 at 15:29:00, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On September 05, 2002 at 14:24:35, Rolf Tueschen wrote: >> >>> >>>I find it a bright demonstration of serenity how you dealt after the first >>>shock. I think you admit that such errors often give more chances for didactic >>>success than a silent community. Honestly said, I wished that many more here >>>would dare to bring forward their very personal results of thinking. Therefore >>>we should care that Vincent is not treated as the absolute idiot now. He made >>>mistakes he couldn't omit with his CC knowledge or chess alone but only with the >>>education in a science. Perhaps this is another task for you when you answer >>>questions. You already introduce many historical stuff, but also important are >>>some _logical_ explanations. > >Here, Bob, unintentionally I used wording that you then took for a comment on >your actual specification. Only after re-reading your final paragraphe below I >realised how you could have misunderstood. > >I was already talking again about your role and postings as such. Not the actual >topic. I tried to make general conclusions. Logical explanations is the wrong >term. I meant explanations about logic! For the not so experienced readers. > >Let me make a joke about your mentioning of the influences of old age. I don't >think that your head is already involved, one's head is most of the time >involved after one's body. But with the age the understanding grows that it's >not so bad to admit some mistakes. And that not every detail must be a question >of life or death. That might give you the impression of the increasing frequency >of errors. :) > >As to Vincent, he might have the same insight in about twenty years, if he's >still here. Then he will face himself some new talent... But this is another >story. Each generation has the right to make its own faults. In real they are >always the same. > > I think Vincent already has enough problems to keep him busy. I'd hate to think about 30+ years from now. Hopefully I won't be in CCC at that point. :) >Rolf Tueschen > > > > >>> >>>Rolf Tueschen >> >>I have always made mistakes. I suspect that I will make _more_ in the future >>as I get older. I don't consider this particular problem very significant at >>all, for reasons I have already stated too many times. But yes, it was a >>problem. Whether we even mentioned the reconstruction or not I don't know >>because I don't have any of the original versions of the paper, all I have is >>the final copy that was scanned by me from the JICCA a couple of years back. >> >>Therefore, I have to use some of the dreaded "I don't remember" stuff because, >>unfortunately, _that_ _is_ _the_ _truth_. Not that I won't remember more in the >>future, who knows. But at the moment, you know everything about the >>circumstances that I can recall.. Lots of bits and pieces from losing files >>in 1996 to running tests in 1993 to who-knows-what. The only thing I care to >>mention is that the raw data for speedups was, and is, correct. And that was >>the data I took so much time to produce...
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