The PDP
In the days when Sussman was a novice Minsky once came to him as he sat hacking at the PDP-6.
"What are you doing?"
, asked Minsky.
"I am training a randomly wired neural net to play Tic-Tac-Toe."
"Why is the net wired randomly?"
, asked Minsky.
"I do not want it to have any preconceptions of how to play."
Minsky shut his eyes.
"Why do you close your eyes?"
, Sussman asked his teacher.
"So the room will be empty."
At that moment, Sussman was enlightened.
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