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<body><div style="font-family:Arial;">There are definitely fuzzy algorithms, just as there is fuzzy logic.<br></div>
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<div style="font-family:Arial;">Our CS colleagues could better explain.<br></div>
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<div>On Tue, Jan 15, 2019, at 11:53 AM, Nick Thompson wrote:<br></div>
<blockquote type="cite"><div><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt"><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(31, 73, 125)"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt">David,</span></span></span></span></span><br></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt"><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(31, 73, 125)"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt"> </span></span></span></span></span><br></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt"><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(31, 73, 125)"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt">Is there such a thing as a fuzzy algorithm? I would think that was a contradiction in terms.</span></span></span></span></span><br></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt"><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(31, 73, 125)"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt"> </span></span></span></span></span><br></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt"><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(31, 73, 125)"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt">N</span></span></span></span></span><br></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt"><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(31, 73, 125)"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt"> </span></span></span></span></span><br></p><div><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt"><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(31, 73, 125)"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt">Nicholas S. Thompson</span></span></span></span></span><br></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt"><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(31, 73, 125)"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt">Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology</span></span></span></span></span><br></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt"><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(31, 73, 125)"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt">Clark University</span></span></span></span></span><br></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt"><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(31, 73, 125)"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt"><a style="text-decoration: underline; color: blue;" href="http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/"><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(5, 99, 193)">http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/</span></a></span></span></span></span></span><br></p></div>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt"><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(31, 73, 125)"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt"> </span></span></span></span></span><br></p><div><div style="border-right-color:currentcolor;border-right-style:none;border-right-width:medium;border-bottom-color:currentcolor;border-bottom-style:none;border-bottom-width:medium;border-left-color:currentcolor;border-left-style:none;border-left-width:medium;border-image-outset:0;border-image-repeat:stretch;border-image-slice:100%;border-image-source:none;border-image-width:1;border-top-color:rgb(225, 225, 225);border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1pt;padding-top:3pt;padding-right:0in;padding-bottom:0in;padding-left:0in;"><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt"><b><span class="font" style="font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt">From:</span></span></b><span class="font" style="font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt"> Friam [mailto:friam-bounces@redfish.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Prof David West<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, January 15, 2019 10:29 AM<br><b>To:</b> friam@redfish.com<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [FRIAM] Few of you ...</span></span></span></span></p></div>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt"> </span></span><br></p><div><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt"> </span></span><br></p><div><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt"><b><span class="font" style="font-family:"Arial", sans-serif">"any military must operate on algorithms" </span></b><span class="font" style="font-family:"Arial", sans-serif">(Nick)</span></span></span><br></p></div>
<div><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Arial", sans-serif"> </span></span></span><br></p></div>
<div><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Arial", sans-serif">Not really true. and there is a huge spectrum of "algorithm-ness" as a function of military branch, activity, rank, etc.</span></span></span><br></p></div>
<div><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Arial", sans-serif"> </span></span></span><br></p></div>
<div><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Arial", sans-serif">A navy vessel is a machine and operates on algorithms. Humans within that machine must be constrained to be as machine-like and algorithm governed as possible else the underlying machine falters. Same this is true of the quasi-military astronauts in the space station.</span></span></span><br></p></div>
<div><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Arial", sans-serif"> </span></span></span><br></p></div>
<div><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Arial", sans-serif">In the army, soldiers are trained in principles until they become second nature and their subsequent behavior is, if successful, decidedly non-algorithmic (instead it is complex / emergent). "Plans are always the first casualty of war." Plans = algorithms. Read General McChrystal's book, <i>Team of Teams</i>, to get what I am saying.</span></span></span><br></p></div>
<div><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Arial", sans-serif"> </span></span></span><br></p></div>
<div><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Arial", sans-serif">A fighter pilot 'practices algorithmically' but does not fight that way. Commercial pilots fly algorithmically — is what makes the job so damn boring — but Schulenberger (tenth anniversary today) did not land in the Hudson according to some algorithm.</span></span></span><br></p></div>
<div><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Arial", sans-serif"> </span></span></span><br></p></div>
<div><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Arial", sans-serif">BTW, software developers are supposed to ply their trade rationally (i.e. algorithmically) but David Parnas once wrote an excellent paper, "The Rational Design Process: how and why to fake it," that put the lie to the ideal.</span></span></span><br></p></div>
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<div><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt">On Mon, Jan 14, 2019, at 11:48 PM, Nick Thompson wrote:</span></span><br></p></div>
<blockquote style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;"><div><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt"><span><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(31, 73, 125)"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt">Thanks for answering, Frank.</span></span></span></span></span></span><br></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt"><span><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(31, 73, 125)"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt"> </span></span></span></span></span></span><br></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt"><span><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(31, 73, 125)"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt">As the old song goes, “Then you’re much older than I-yai!”</span></span></span></span></span></span><br></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt"><span><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(31, 73, 125)"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt"> </span></span></span></span></span></span><br></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt"><span><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(31, 73, 125)"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt">Do you also remember when “They waltzed to a Souza Band”</span></span></span></span></span></span><br></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt"><span><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(31, 73, 125)"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt"> </span></span></span></span></span></span><br></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt"><span><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(31, 73, 125)"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt">My wasn’t that music grand! </span></span></span></span></span></span><br></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt"><span><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(31, 73, 125)"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt"> </span></span></span></span></span></span><br></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt"><span><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(31, 73, 125)"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt">Oh, it was more than the pomp Wouk bristled at. It was the removal of discretion, as well. The American military is perhaps better than most in that regard, but any military has to operate on algorithms, and nobody likes to be a node in an algorithm. So, I guess my thesis was that in the second world war we got a double and conflicting lesson: how effective an algorithmic system can be AND how demeaning it can be to be part of one. Two solutions present themselves: 1. Hire mercenaries and 2. Automate. Of course we have done both. </span></span></span></span></span></span><br></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt"><span><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(31, 73, 125)"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt"> </span></span></span></span></span></span><br></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt"><span><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(31, 73, 125)"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt">An officer of your dad’s rank, of course, was an exception and even within that giant system he made big decisions daily, decisions that affected the lives of thousands of people. There is a scene in that same book where an officer is required to make one of those decisions between surely killing 50 strangers or threatening the life of 150 you know that utilitarians are fond of posing. It’s a harrowing scene. </span></span></span></span></span></span><br></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt"><span><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(31, 73, 125)"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt"> </span></span></span></span></span></span><br></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt"><span><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(31, 73, 125)"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt">I wonder what the relation is between a distaste for government and service as an enlisted soldier. That’s not a rhetorical question. I do wonder. I am thinking there is a high correlation between states with high military participation and states with anti-government politics. When a conservative thinks of “government” is he more likely to think of the military? </span></span></span></span></span></span><br></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt"><span><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(31, 73, 125)"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt"> </span></span></span></span></span></span><br></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt"><span><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(31, 73, 125)"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt">Nick</span></span></span></span></span></span><br></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt"><span><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(31, 73, 125)"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt"> </span></span></span></span></span></span><br></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt"><span><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(31, 73, 125)"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt">Nicholas S. Thompson</span></span></span></span></span></span><br></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt"><span><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(31, 73, 125)"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt">Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology</span></span></span></span></span></span><br></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt"><span><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(31, 73, 125)"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt">Clark University</span></span></span></span></span></span><br></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt"><span><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(31, 73, 125)"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt"><a style="text-decoration: underline; color: blue;" href="http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/"><span><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(5, 99, 193)">http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/</span></span></a></span></span></span></span></span></span><br></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt"><span><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(31, 73, 125)"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt"> </span></span></span></span></span></span><br></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt"><span><b><span class="font" style="font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt">From:</span></span></b></span><span><span class="font" style="font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt"> Friam [<a style="text-decoration: underline; color: blue;" href="mailto:friam-bounces@redfish.com">mailto:friam-bounces@redfish.com</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Frank Wimberly</span></span></span><span class="font" style="font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt"><br><span><b>Sent:</b> Monday, January 14, 2019 10:01 PM</span><br><span><b>To:</b> The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <<a style="text-decoration: underline; color: blue;" href="mailto:friam@redfish.com">friam@redfish.com</a>></span><br><span><b>Subject:</b> Re: [FRIAM] Few of you ...</span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt"><span> </span></span></span><br></p><div><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt"><span>I read the book but I don't remember that paragraph. As you know, dad was a Naval Officer who achieved respectable rank. I was fascinated by it but he felt that all the pomp and ceremony was BS. If computers are today's sailors, something is lost and something gained.</span></span></span><br></p><div><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt"><span> </span></span></span><br></p></div>
<div><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 0in;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt"><span>Frank</span></span></span><br></p><div><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt"><span>-----------------------------------</span><br><span>Frank Wimberly</span><br><br><span>My memoir:</span><br><span><a style="text-decoration: underline; color: blue;" href="https://www.amazon.com/author/frankwimberly">https://www.amazon.com/author/frankwimberly</a></span><br><br><span>My scientific publications:</span><br><span><a style="text-decoration: underline; color: blue;" href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank_Wimberly2">https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank_Wimberly2</a></span><br><br><span>Phone (505) 670-9918</span></span></span></p></div>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt"><span> </span></span></span><br></p><div><div><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt"><span>On Mon, Jan 14, 2019, 9:53 PM Nick Thompson <<a style="text-decoration: underline; color: blue;" href="mailto:nickthompson@earthlink.net">nickthompson@earthlink.net</a> wrote:</span></span></span><br></p></div>
<blockquote style="border-top-style:none;border-top-width:medium;border-right-style:none;border-right-width:medium;border-bottom-style:none;border-bottom-width:medium;border-left-color:rgb(204, 204, 204);border-left-style:solid;border-left-width:1pt;padding-top:0in;padding-right:0in;padding-bottom:0in;padding-left:6pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-top:5pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5pt;border-top-color:currentcolor;border-right-color:currentcolor;border-bottom-color:currentcolor;border-image-outset:0;border-image-repeat:stretch;border-image-slice:100%;border-image-source:none;border-image-width:1;"><div><div><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt"><span>, I imagine, are old enough to remember this:</span></span></span><br></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt"><span> </span></span></span><br></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt"><span><b><i><span class="size" style="font-size:10pt">“The Navy is a master plan designed by geniuses for execution by idiots. If you are not an idiot, but find yourself in the Navy, you can only operate well by pretending to be one. All the shortcuts and economies and common-sense changes that your native intelligence suggests to you are mistakes. Learn to quash them. Constantly ask yourself, "How would I do this if I were a fool?" Throttle down your mind to a crawl. Then you will never go wrong.” </span></i></b></span><br><span>― Herman Wouk, <a style="text-decoration: underline; color: blue;" href="https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/1059565">The Caine Mutiny</a></span></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt"><span>It seems right that the computer was invented by a democratic society after the largest successful naval campaign in the history of the universe. The navy was a giant algorithm. Computers are the conscripted sailors of our generation.</span></span></span><br></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt"><span> </span></span></span><br></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt"><span>Nick</span></span></span><br></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt"><span>Nicholas S. Thompson</span></span></span><br></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt"><span>Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology</span></span></span><br></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt"><span>Clark University</span></span></span><br></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt"><span><a style="text-decoration: underline; color: blue;" href="http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/">http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/</a></span></span></span><br></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:12pt"><span> </span></span></span><br></p></div>
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