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2001/6/17-19 [Computer/Theory] UID:21552 Activity:high 86%like:21549
6/17    [REPOST] Anyone know of a good introduction to the Gell-Mann
        8 Fold Way that can be understood by a engineering grad (7
        series plus one ud phyics class and one ud math class)?
        \_ forget it.
        \_ forget it. There's so much physics out there that is accesible
           to someone with the background you describe, that will actually
           teach you something useful about how the world works, and can
           be applied to useful things like how devices work.  why fuck
           around with useless stuff you need grad level math and physics to
           understand?
           \_ Because it is interesting.
              \_ No.  AI is interesting.
                 \_ I've worked on AIs before (GA,NN,ES,FL) and IMHO
                    physics is much more interesting because it is
                    understandable via mathematics. AI is just a bunch
                    of weeny structured programmers whinning about
                    lisp, scheme, semantics, cognition, determinism,
                    etc without ever producing anything useful because
                    the concepts of intelligence and self-awareness
                    are too hard to reduce into programmable abstractions.
                    About the only promising avenue of research in AI
                    is machine learning, but once you get right down to
                    it, the most fancy machine we have today is about
                    as smart as a fungus or possibly a protozoan.
                    \_ You are a stupid, stupid troll, friend.  You need to
                       read a real AI textbook.  What you are whining about is
                       not AI, it's cognitive science.
        \_ Pick up any intro abstract algebra or group theory text, read
           up on basic group theory, read the stuff on SP/SU groups, and
           then we talk.

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