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Subject: Re: Everything you know is wrong

Author: Omid David Tabibi

Date: 08:43:36 12/18/02

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On December 18, 2002 at 04:23:08, Bruce Moreland wrote:

>On December 18, 2002 at 03:52:51, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>I do not think that the paper claimed to prove that verification search is
>>better than R=3(I agree that it was better to do it but there is a difference
>>between criticizing a paper for not doing it and saying that everything that the
>>author knows is wrong).
>>
>>I believe that it is better than R=3 for a lot of programs(at least at long time
>>control).
>>
>>I think that the interesting question is not if the article is written correctly
>>but if the idea can help programs.
>>If the idea can help programs even when you can criticize the article then
>>saying "everything that you know is wrong" does not seems to me correct.
>>
>>
>>I agree that the fact that articles do not try to compare time is wrong.
>>I understand the problem of the fact that time is not deterministic but
>>it is still possible to use fixed estimated time.
>>
>>The program may have a global varaible with the name estimated_time that may be
>>updated after every procedure so the result can be reproducable and give better
>>estimate for time than the number of nodes.
>>
>>Uri
>
>"Everything you know is wrong" is a quote from the video game, "Marble Madness",
>and is not designed to be a taken literally.
>

But if quotation marks are not used (as in your subject line), it would be taken
literally.


>There were a bunch of levels, and in one of them, you had to go uphill instead
>of downhill.
>
>I enjoy the quote, since it so fully dashes previously held assumptions about
>how the world works.
>
>bruce



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