Hacker koan
- In the days when Sussman was a novice, Minsky once came to him.
- "What are you doing?", asked Minsky.
- "I am training a randomly wired neural net to playTic-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.
- Moral:
- "If you wire it randomly, it will still have preconceptions of how to play. But you just won't know what those preconceptions are."
- Source: wiki
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