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- From: choy@skorpio.usask.ca (I am a terminator.)
- Newsgroups: sci.engr
- Subject: Computing for Engineering
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 21:50:58 GMT
- Organization: University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
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- References: <1hd86pINNigi@access.usask.ca> <1992Dec29.020355.14737@cbfsb.cb.att.com> <1992Dec30.091508@roper.mc.ti.com> <C11AMs.295@world.std.com>
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- In article <C11AMs.295@world.std.com>, fw@world.std.com (forrest d whitcher) writes:
- |> >it would appear that all advances are made by specialists
- |>
- |> Pardon my paraphrase, I _do_ understand what you are saying, but I have
- |> rather observed that many, though certainly not a majority of advances
- |> come when a specialists move between fields. Thus, molecular biology
- |> became what is is when a number of physicists applied their knowlege to an
- |> area which had been neglected from that point of view. Certainly in my
- |> experience, engineers often miss a solution to a difficult problem because
- |> the answer lies in an area in which they have not been trained.
- |>
- |> I do not think that the above observation indicates a devaluing of
- |> specialization, but perhaps that failure to look beyond the narrow answers
- |> is and essential cause of dogmatic thinking.
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- I think this stems from the undecidability of deduction and the explosion
- of knowledge. I wonder if people are interested in computer systems that
- can produce knowledge (such as the procedure for constructing a pair of
- Rock Shox) by applying inference rules to a giant knowledge base.
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- Henry Choy
- choy@cs.usask.ca
-
- What rolls down stairs alone or in pairs This has been brought to
- Rolls over your neighbor's dog? you by the numbers 4
- What's great for a snack and fits on your back? and 9 and the letter P.
- It's Log, Log, Log! -- "The Log Song", from -- Big Bird
- Ren & Stimpy
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- Math is tough! -- Barbie
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