Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 14:18:08 01/25/03
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On January 25, 2003 at 16:29:44, Albert Silver wrote: >On January 25, 2003 at 15:29:45, pavel wrote: > >>I was just browsing the web looking for Computer Chess programming related >>articles, and than I bumped into this: >> >>http://sccs.muldermedia.de/ >> >>Quote: >>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >>"If ask whether Ferret could crush Deep Blue, my answer was yes, if it was >>dropped out of an airplane. With the new machine [quad Xeon], it would only need >>to be dropped five or six stories, which is progress of a sort." >>(Bruce Morland on CCC) >> >>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >>I never read it on the forum, but it's a good one. :) > >It's a twist on a quote by Ken Thompson. Ken Thompson was stopped by government >officials when embarking to Russia with Belle for the World Chess Computer >Championship. The officials claimed his machine could be used for other means >than playing chess. Thompson was adamant that the idea was ludicrous. Finally >one official asked whether there was no conceivable way it could be used as a >weapon. He responded that perhaps if it was dropped out of an airplane it might >kill someone. :-) > >My memory of the exact details may be off, but that's as I remember it. > > Albert I took partial responsibility for the quote in another post, so I'll explain that I hadn't heard the Thompson quote, in case someone wants to think that I'm borrowing someone else's words. bruce
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