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You don’t understand anything until you learn it more than one way.<\/i><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Marvin Lee Minsky (born August 9, 1927 and died January 24, 2016 at the age of 88) is an American cognitive scientist in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), co-founder of Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Artificial Intelligence\u00a0laboratory, and author of several texts on AI and philosophy.<\/p>\n

An Hacker Koan to remember him:<\/p>\n

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“What are you doing?”, asked Minsky.<\/i><\/dd>\n
“I am training a randomly wired neural net to play Tic-tac-toe”, Sussman replied.<\/i><\/dd>\n
“Why is the net wired randomly?”, asked Minsky.<\/i><\/dd>\n
“I do not want it to have any preconceptions of how to play”, Sussman said.<\/i><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
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Minsky then shut his eyes.<\/i><\/dd>\n
“Why do you close your eyes?” Sussman asked his teacher.<\/i><\/dd>\n
“So that the room will be empty.”<\/dd>\n
At that moment, Sussman was enlightened.<\/i><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n\n
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