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From: gowj@novavax.UUCP (James Gow)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Buzzword
Message-ID: <2239@novavax.UUCP>
Date: 21 Mar 91 05:10:14 GMT
References: <1991Mar6.192044.8055@csn.org> <3713@intvax.UUCP> <5491@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: gowj@novavax.UUCP (James Gow)
Organization: Nova University, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
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In article <5491@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> minsky@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Marvin Minsky) writes:
>>From article <1991Mar6.192044.8055@csn.org>, by tesar@tigger.Colorado.EDU (Bruce Tesar):
>>>I'm looking for a buzzword that describes problems that at first sound
>"humanly" easy problems that turn out hard -- like learning to talk,
>has some sort of time-scale or dating parameter.  The point is
>"difficult for whom" at what state of technology.  Or, to specify to
>who the problem looks difficult.


I had to laugh when I read this. It sounded like the disarming of the
armada.
linc
James