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- From: les@SAIL.Stanford.EDU (Les Earnest)
- Subject: Re: Models
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.233915.9894@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>
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- Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
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- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 23:39:15 GMT
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- Tom Droege, my house-mate from 35 years ago, sez:
- >No one has discussed my first order system model. Les Earnest, I know
- >you studied this at MIT in the same course that I took. Are you listening?
- >Is it possible that none of you have used spice like programs to model
- >physical systems? What do you do with all those computers?? I will be
- >the first to admit it is a weak model, but I was very surprised when it
- >told me there was no net power!
-
- Sorry for the slow response -- I was travelling last week. Alas, at
- MIT I "progressed" from linear systems to artificial intelligence and
- then to research management (a.k.a. "artificial stupidity"), so I'm
- not much help. Give me a programming problem and I'll thrash out a
- solution, but please don't ask me to deal with reality.
- --
- Les Earnest Phone: 415 941-3984
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