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Article 129 of rec.humor.funny:
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Path: santra!tut!draken!kth!mcvax!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!decwrl!ucbvax!bloom-beacon!apple!vsi1!daver!ssbn!looking!funny-request
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From: ajs@hpfcajs.UUCP
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Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny
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Subject: AI Koans
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Keywords: chuckle
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Message-ID: <2977@looking.UUCP>
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Date: 20 Mar 89 11:30:04 GMT
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Sender: funny@looking.UUCP
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Lines: 66
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Approved: funny@looking.UUCP
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Reply-Path: neat.ai.toronto.edu!rutgers!hplabs.hp.com!hpfcla!hpfcajs!ajs
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(From sri-unix!greiner@Diablo Sun Jul 24 17:21:00 1983)
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A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the
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power off and on. Knight, seeing what the student was doing
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spoke sternly: "You can not fix a machine by just power-cycling
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it with no understanding of what is going wrong." Knight turned
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the machine off and on. The machine worked.
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___________
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One day a student came to Moon and said, "I understand how to
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make a better garbage collector. We must keep a reference count
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of the pointers to each cons." Moon patiently told the student
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the following story:
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"One day a student came to Moon and said, "I understand how
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to make a better garbage collector...
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___________
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In the days when Sussman was a novice Minsky once came to him as
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he sat hacking at the PDP-6. "What are you doing?", asked
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Minsky. "I am training a randomly wired neural net to play
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Tic-Tac-Toe." "Why is the net wired randomly?", asked Minsky.
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"I do not want it to have any preconceptions of how to play."
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Minsky shut his eyes. "Why do you close your eyes?", Sussman
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asked his teacher. "So the room will be empty." At that
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moment, Sussman was enlightened.
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___________
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A student, in hopes of understanding the Lambda-nature, came to
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Greenblatt. As they spoke a Multics system hacker walked by.
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"Is it true," asked the student, "that PL-1 has many of the same
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data types as Lisp?" Almost before the student had finished his
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question, Greenblatt shouted, "FOO!", and hit the student with a
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stick.
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___________
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A disciple of another sect once came to Drescher as he was
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eating his morning meal. "I would like to give you this
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personality test," said the outsider, "because I want you to be
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happy." Drescher took the paper that was offered him and put it
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into the toaster: "I wish the toaster to be happy, too."
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___________
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A man from AI walked across the mountains to SAIL to see the
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Master, Knuth. When he arrived, the Master was nowhere to be
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found. "Where is the wise one named Knuth?", he asked a passing
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student. "Ah," said the student, "you have not heard. He has
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gone on a pilgrimage across the mountains to the temple of AI to
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seek out new disciples." Hearing this, the man was Enlightened.
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___________
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A famous Lisp Hacker noticed an Undergraduate sitting in front
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of a Xerox 1108, trying to edit a complex Klone network via a
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browser. Wanting to help, the Hacker clicked one of the nodes
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in the network with the mouse, and asked "what do you see?"
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Very earnesty, the Undergraduate replied "I see a cursor." The
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Hacker then quickly pressed the boot toggle at the back of the
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keyboard, while simultaneously hitting the Undergraduate over
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the head with a thick Interlisp Manual. The Undergraduate was
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then Enlightened.
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--
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Edited by Brad Templeton. MAIL, yes MAIL your jokes to funny@looking.UUCP
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Attribute the joke's source if at all possible. I will reply, mailers willing.
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Remember: If you POST your joke instead of mailing it, I will not reply.
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