<< saw feedback loops everywhere >> --- repeated in successive paragraphs? << we scientists >> Oh dear ... There are a number of linguistic tics that reveal considerably more about the author's insecurities than might either have been intended, or (presumably) preferred. Delete "we" ! Now !! But just in case you feel tempted to ignore my advice, take time to watch a low-key masterpiece set in postwar Britain. "Not the way _we doctors_ do it!" should be sufficient to convince you for life ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10_Rillington_Place [ A related solecism --- even more dismally common, at any rate in Britain --- involves a title screaming "We cannot do such-and-such", when closer inspection of the content suggests that the author intended to assert "We must not do such-and-such", as opposed to inadvertantly implying the irrelevance of the entire remainder of the succeeding diatribe. ] Off you go now, and don't do it again! WFL On 6/14/20, Dan Asimov <dasimov@earthlink.net> wrote:
That would be Norbert Wiener. My father thought I should make sure to get to know him when I arrived at college, but unfortunately he died about six months before my freshman year began.
—Dan
----- with regard to wolves and deer, you could tell the story of the deliberate introduction of myxomatosis to control the rabbit population in Australia…
I recently re-read Weiner’s Cybernetics, and found it for the most part to have aged quite well. -----
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