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Re: AI and even more exiciting stuff / off-topic
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Mon, 18 Oct 1999 15:46:38 GMT
Original-From: 
Markus L. Noga <MARKUS@NOGAspamcake.DE>
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Ralph Hempel wrote:
If they don't learn fixed point, they may see a simple 8-bit fixed point
processor and say it can't do AI because it has no FP numbers....

Ah, I almost forgot. I saw an applet somewhere on the University network
that translates some higher language, possibly C or a subset of Java,
into output suitable for universal turing machines. Not quite the
performance king, but interesting.

Markus.

--
"Nieder mit den Zitaten!" -Markus L. Noga <markus@noga.de>



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  RE: AI and even more exiciting stuff
 
(...) OK, time to get out the soapbox. If you are trying to teach AI, and are using floating point math, then you probably have really fast computers with floating point processors that are sometimes quicker than equivalent fixed point calcs...... I (...) (25 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)

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