Sussman attains enlightenment

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” 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.

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>>1
Please enlighten me. I have never understood what this means.

>>5
lol

>>5
You will never achieve satori

>>5
A better version of the story:

o Sussman began working on a program. Not long after, this odd-looking bald guy came over. Sussman figured the guy was going to boot him out, but instead the man sat down, asking, “Hey, what are you doing?” Sussman talked over his program with the man, Marvin Minsky. At one point in the discussion, Sussman told Minsky that he was using a certain randomizing technique in his program because he didn’t want the machine to have any preconceived notions. Minsky said, “Well, it has them, it’s just that you don’t know what they are.” It was the most profound thing Gerry Sussman had ever heard. And Minsky continued, telling him that the world is built a certain way, and the most important thing we can do with the world is avoid randomness, and figure out ways by which things can be planned. Wisdom like this has its effect on seventeen-year-old freshmen, and from then on Sussman was hooked.

Now tell us the tale of how he developed his unscientific and ultimately destructive fandom for Galileo.

The Sussman was standing alone in a room.

At this time, he was enlightened.

One day, the young Sussman approached the prettiest girl of his school.

"Will you go to the prom with me?" he asked.

"What the hell you nerd, you've got to be kidding." she replied.

Later that day, the Abelson approached the Sussman and inquired "Why did you do this?"

"Because I hate myself" the Sussman explained.

And the Anticudder was enlightened.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Abelson

Richard Stallman reportedly enjoys sleeping on Dr. Abelson's couch.

>>12

Richard Stallman reportedly enjoys sleep overs at the Abelson's house. They spend all night doing each other's hair, talking about boys, and baking cookies in their jammies

>>13

Richard Stallman reportedly enjoys sleep overs at the Abelson's house. They spend all night compiling each other's kernels, talking about FOSS, and baking LISP interpreters in their WIZARD ROBE AND HAT

>>13
>>14
I am enlightened.

>>12-14
I enlighten'd

>>1

I don't get it. Is Minsky closing his eyes to hint to Sussman that he should go away, because he is annoyed with him for making rubbish neural nets?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerd#Nerd_pride

    ``My idea is to present an image to children that it is good to be intellectual, and not to care about the peer pressures to be anti-intellectual. I want every child to turn into a nerd - where that means someone who prefers studying and learning to competing for social dominance, which can unfortunately cause the downward spiral into social rejection.''

        — Gerald Sussman, quoted by Katie Hafner, The New York Times, 29 August 1993

>>18
Garden path sentence detected ：（

>>1,7
Do not conflate the Tao with your trite trolling "read SICP" satori bullshit.

>>17
I don't think it is possible to be as far away from satori as you claim to be and still be able to post here and know the Sussman and Minsky. Therefore, you must be trolling. And I was enlightened.

>>18

who the fsck is Gerald Sussman ? is he the brother of GJS Jay Sussman ?

GJS is Gay Jay Sussman.

>>23
Gay Jew Sussman.

>>24
That's nasty.

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