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- Subject: Re: Why AI people shouldn't talk about :(measuring co
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.143406.19151@uni2b.unige.ch>
- From: swann@divsun.unige.ch (SWANN Philip)
- Date: 14 Aug 92 14:34:05 +0200
- References: <1992Aug10.115352.1@acad3.alaska.edu> <1992Aug12.150857.219@access.digex.com> <BsxH2n.Ks4@math.uwaterloo.ca> <59656@mimsy.umd.edu>
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- In article <59656@mimsy.umd.edu>, peyote@umiacs.umd.edu (Gary W. Flake) writes:
- >
- >
- > I just thought that someone should point out that the discussion
- > taking place is full of holes. People, please read-up on terms such
- > as "finite-state-machines", "infinite-state-machines", and "Turing
- > machine" before using them in a discussion such as this. I know that
- > your intensions are good, as are your ideas, but every post made so
- > far has had a mistake, if only in the use of the terms.
- >
- > Gary
- >
- >
-
- I agree: "The Turing Machine. Let us be a little more precise. A Turing
- machine M involves: (1) A finite alphabet of symbols; (2) a finite set
- of [internal] states....." (Harel's "Algorithmics" p. 215 ... or any other
- introductory text."
-
- Philip Swann
- University of Geneva
-
- p.s. It's actually the "intensions" that are bad, while the "intentions"
- may be good. %-))
-