Martin Frost saved many a file for me in grad school Q: Does the alias "More Whimsical" still survive for Les Earnest in Stanford AI Lab backups? I independently found the NYT 3-4-5 problem last week at Lake Tahoe and blogged it, but before I did I showed the article to quite a few people at Stanford Sierra Camp and was surprised how many of them (a surgeon, a political scientist) not only immediately expressed doubt about whether the 30 60 90 solution was correct but also seemed to know that the answer wasn't going to be "nice." Two other people, neither mathematicians, also immediately went on to speculate whether the 30 60 90 solution had found it into the Florida test. This experience cleared up for me the mystery of who is buying up all those math popularizations such as DFW's Everything and More, they must be surgeons and political scientists. Thane Plambeck 650 321 4884 office 650 323 4928 fax http://www.plambeck.org ----- Original Message ----- From: "John McCarthy" <jmc@steam.Stanford.EDU> To: <math-fun@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 6:40 PM Subject: Re: [math-fun] Old books
Martin Frost and Lester Earnest made a heroic and successful effort to transfer the Stanford AI Lab backup tapes from 7 track tapes to 9 track tapes. Heroic because the tape drives had got out of adjustment and sometimes had to be realigned several times to read a given tape. Later Martin Frost and Bruce Baumgart transferred the files to disk. Now I think the data are safe, because the files can readily be transferred when new kinds of memory replace the old.
Anyone who had an account at the Stanford AI Lab can get his files back.
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