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Carciofus Is that cake frosting? from Alpha Tucanae I Since: May, 2010
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#1: Oct 25th 2011 at 6:25:30 AM

Our planet woke up a bit dumber today sad

He is mostly known as the creator of Lisp, but that actually was just a tiny part of his work on AI and related matters — personally, I knew him more for his work on nonmonotonic logic, but his webpage contains plenty of interesting papers on quite the breadth of topics.

edited 25th Oct '11 8:08:13 AM by Carciofus

But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.
USAF721 F-22 1986 Concept from the United States Since: Oct, 2011
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#2: Oct 25th 2011 at 7:10:20 AM

I read the title as Joseph Mc Carthy and was rightly confused...

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Merlo *hrrrrrk* from the masochist chamber Since: Oct, 2009
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#3: Oct 25th 2011 at 7:13:43 AM

Scheme was the 2nd programming language I learned, and I hated it [lol]. Guess I can't say anything bad about it now sad. Either way I respect Mr. McCarthy and his contributions. RIP.

Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am...
Rottweiler Dog and Pony Show from Portland, Oregon Since: Dec, 2009
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#5: Oct 25th 2011 at 8:50:05 AM

I read the title as John Mc Cain and was rightly confused...

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Joesolo Indiana Solo Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
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#6: Oct 25th 2011 at 3:41:07 PM

Did anyone not think it was someone else? You had me freak out that the Beatle had died.

I'm baaaaaaack
Tzetze DUMB from a converted church in Venice, Italy Since: Jan, 2001
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#7: Oct 25th 2011 at 3:44:58 PM

Yeah, he didn't seem to do much for Lisp beyond the whole inventing it business, and even then the idea was that it would be used for easier program verification and such; it wasn't originally supposed to be something actually implemented, after all. I'm not surprised he made more contributions to math and logic.

^Paul McCartney? Read more carefully, then.

edited 25th Oct '11 3:45:42 PM by Tzetze

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Joesolo Indiana Solo Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
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#8: Oct 25th 2011 at 3:55:23 PM

[up] I Have to say it was around midnight and my laptop plug got pulled out a few seconds after. My brain Isn't at it's best in those circumstances.

I'm baaaaaaack
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