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Originally Posted by Richard Wallace
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Isaac saw what I was thinking immediately -- he and I think alike often. BTW, I don't recall an xkcd reference. My thought was about the end of the 1983 film War Games, in which the NORAD computer learns (by playing a lot of Tic-Tac-Toe before running a lot of simulations) that global thermonuclear war cannot be won. |
WOPR with the operating system known as
Joshua. It was one of my favorite movies to have on in the background while I built things out of legos. Closely followed by another 1980s
gem where I learned the odds of finding a 5 leaf clover.
*Warning some possible stronger language than I remember watching it on WGN channel 9.
FIRST is difficult and it is challenging, but you aren’t necessarily required to go off and build an 8 motor drivetrain and 4 motor / 8 pneumatic piston arm mechanism for the heck of it when a 2 motor non-shifting drivetrain and 2 motor arm does just as good a job. - Bill Gold [more] 
07-27-2016, 05:59 PM
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