<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"times new roman",serif;font-size:large"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Mar 1, 2023 at 8:36 PM Noel Chiappa <<a href="mailto:jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu">jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Which one? There were two: "MIT's AI Lab", by CSTACY, Alan Wecsler, and me;<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"times new roman",serif;font-size:large"></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"times new roman",serif;font-size:large">That one. Mine should really be rewritten now.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"times new roman",serif;font-size:large"></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"times new roman",serif;font-size:large"></span>which Rob Austein re-wrote into "Alice's PDP-10". <br></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"times new roman",serif;font-size:large">I didn't know that one was done at MIT.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"times new roman",serif;font-size:large"></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I think that the person fails their oral. I<br>
have no idea if it's a true story.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"times new roman",serif;font-size:large">That's vicious. It reminds me of the medical oral exam where the last question is "How many cranial nerves are there in Great Britain?" Of course the candidate tries to remember how many people there are and multiplies it by 12, on the fly. The answer is "One more than in the U.S.", because one subdivided nerve is/was considered two distinct nerves there. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"times new roman",serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"times new roman",serif;font-size:large">"Mr. Asimov, what can you tell us about the endochronic properties of resublimated thiotimoline?"</div></div></div>