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   on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ (lain@lain.com)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Dec-2022 09:41:01 JST on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ
   every time I hear about gerrymandering I think of this:
   
   In the days when Sussman was a novice, Minsky once came to him as he sat hacking at the PDP-6.
   
   “What are you doing?”, asked Minsky.
   
   “I am training a randomly wired neural net to play Tic-Tac-Toe” Sussman replied.
   
   “Why is the net wired randomly?”, asked Minsky.
   
   “I do not want it to have any preconceptions of how to play”, Sussman said.
   
   Minsky then shut his eyes.
   
   “Why do you close your eyes?”, Sussman asked his teacher.
   
   “So that the room will be empty.”
   
   At that moment, Sussman was enlightened.
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     workingsea (workingsea@blob.cat)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Dec-2022 11:38:55 JST workingsea

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     • Polychrome :blabcat:
     @Polychrome @lain It'll have preconceptions of how to play, it's just that we don't know what they are. The room will not be empty, he'll just not know who's in there.
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     Polychrome :blabcat: (polychrome@poly.cybre.city)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Dec-2022 11:38:56 JST Polychrome :blabcat:

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     @lain I never did understand that one :blobcatthonking: