obscurum per obscurius (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} greylit) wrote,@ 2006-08-31 12:54:00 |
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my astonishment
Angry, Lentz lobotomized the thing. "Just punishment," he declared. "This box didn't deserve to think." Hurting the circuit seemed no more sadistic than forcing it to learn in the first place.
He blurred the device's retention. He reduced the scope and breadth of connections. Then he tested it a last time in its weakened state, empiricism now taunting all three of us. To my astonishment, the learning algorithm rose up from its reduced straits and began to get the picture.
