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- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 18:16:41 EST
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- From: "(Avery Andrews)" <andaling@FAC.ANU.EDU.AU>
- Subject: science & engineering
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- [Avery Andrews 921102.18.13]
- (Dag Forssell (921109))
-
- >Even on this CSGnet, which is dedicated to the study of PCT, there
- >appears to be relatively few people who have studied PCT seriously, as
- >an engineering science. Those who have, recognize and visualize the
- > ...
- >PCT lives up to rigorous levels of testing and verification.
- >Demonstrations with real human beings having to use their brain routinely
- >demonstrate 95-98% correlation between prediction and actual.
-
- In some areas, but not in others, such as finding the fridge door
- (since nobody knows how to wire up a fridge-door detector). But the
- science isn't mature until this and many other problems are sorted
- out, & it's a big mistake to try to launch an engineering discpline
- without a clear view of the scope and limits of the extant (as opposed
- to hoped-for) science (the folks in Eastern Europe are up for
- quite a few years of picking up the wreckage of such a mistake).
-
- Avery.Andrews@anu.edu.au
-