It ties.

Rui A. Rebelo I don't smoke, don't gamble, don't sniff, don't drink and don't womanize. My only defect is that I lie just a little bit, sometimes. Tim Maia (brazilian pop singer)

Marc Clifton wrote:

A huge state machine is not a significant advance nor is it intelligence.

Every Turing-based computer is a state machine. Therefore you only consider a significant advance a computer that breaks the most basic paradigm of theory of computation. It will only happen if we get quantum computing to work.

Rui A. Rebelo I don't smoke, don't gamble, don't sniff, don't drink and don't womanize. My only defect is that I lie just a little bit, sometimes. Tim Maia (brazilian pop singer)

Gary R. Wheeler wrote:

Schaeffer has simply used enough compute time (e.g. applied brute force) to fully evaluate the tree for the game of checkers.

I graduated recently at the University of Alberta. Had a course on AI and Dr. Schaeffer gave the class on search techniques applied to games. In his class he commented that yours is the most common critique about AI. When people see the massive search computers do to simulate intelligent behavior they say: "Oh, that's just brute force, it is not real intelligence". And they end up never accepting that computers can simulate "real" intelligence. I don't have the slightest idea of what "AI techniques" could be used to prove that Chinook can't be beaten besides massive search and I am sure you don't, too. But I am sure that, regardless of the means, Chinook simulates intelligent behavior pretty well. And this is why we call it "Artificial Intelligence".

Rui A. Rebelo I don't smoke, don't gamble, don't sniff, don't drink and don't womanize. My only defect is that I lie just a little bit, sometimes. Tim Maia (brazilian pop singer)

Today is universal sick day[^]:-D [edit]Also[^][/edit] Rui A. Rebelo -- modified at 10:43 Tuesday 13th June, 2006

I recently became a (proud and happy) Canadian.:-D In the ceremony there were around 80 people. Canada receives an average of 250 000 imigrants a year. From these around 75% end up staying. I don't know how many become citizens. In a time when so many countries (Russia, a good part of Europe, etc) are loosing people it is not bad at all. And just like any other Canadian, there is no other place I'd prefer to live. Rui A. Rebelo I don't smoke, don't gamble, don't sniff, don't drink and don't womanize. My only defect is that I lie just a little bit, sometimes. Tim Maia (brazilian pop singer)

Cross it because the crocodiles are in the lion's conference? Rui A. Rebelo I don't smoke, don't gamble, don't sniff, don't drink and don't womanize. My only defect is that I lie just a little bit, sometimes. Tim Maia (brazilian pop singer)

Does anyone know where can I buy (online, preferably in Canada) a LCD 2.5 inches screen for a digital camera? I have a Casio Exilim EX-Z750. It was in my pocket and the screen just got a crack, without any pressure or torsion. I know I could send it to Casio to repair, but I just don't want to give any cent to a company wich sells such a feeble product. So before buying a different camera (not Casio anymore) I might try to fix mine. I checked http://www.digikey.com[^], but no success. Rui A. Rebelo I don't smoke, don't gamble, don't sniff, don't drink and don't womanize. My only defect is that I lie just a little bit, sometimes. Tim Maia (brazilian pop singer)

Something like:

SELECT B.employee, A.employee
FROM MyTable as A,
MyTable as B
WHERE A.Manager == B.employee
GROUP BY B.employee

There might be some syntax error; too much time I don't do SQL. It would print all the edges (branches) of the tree. Is that what you want? Rui A. Rebelo I don't smoke, don't gamble, don't sniff, don't drink and don't womanize. My only defect is that I lie just a little bit, sometimes. Tim Maia (brazilian pop singer)

Isn't there something like that in Shakespeare, "The tempest"? Rui A. Rebelo I don't smoke, don't gamble, don't sniff, don't drink and don't womanize. My only defect is that I lie just a little bit, sometimes. Tim Maia (brazilian pop singer)

The numbers are 3 and 4. Explanation: B is told the sum: 7. He knows that only 2 different pairs of numbers greater than 2 can give a sum of 7 : 3+4 and 2+5. Therefore:

Quartz... wrote:

1=> B: I cannot determine a, b.

A is told the product: 12. He knows that there are just 2 different pairs of numbers greater than 2 which give this result: 2*6 and 3*4. So:

Quartz... wrote:

2=> A: I cannot determine a, b

Now, B knows 2 things. He knows A's ambiguity if the numbers are 3 and 4. And he knows that if they were 2 and 5 (as B considered) then A wouldn't have an ambiguity; these 2 numbers would generate a unique product of 10. Facing A's ambiguity:

Quartz... wrote:

3=> B: I already knew that.

A perceives that B solved it's own ambiguity and the only possibility of this happening is that the numbers are 3 and 4. If they were 2 and 6 as he considered the sum would be 8, wich would give 3 diferent possibilities to B (4+4, 2+6, 3+5). So:

Quartz... wrote:

4=> A: In that case, I now know them

And B already knew the answer. Makes sense? Did I preserve my sanity? Rui A. Rebelo I don't smoke, don't gamble, don't sniff, don't drink and don't womanize. My only defect is that I lie just a little bit, sometimes. Tim Maia (brazilian pop singer)

Tom Archer - MSFT wrote:

I think it was Thomas Bratti that first made this popular.

He still does: http://www.dhtmlcentral.com/[^] Rui A. Rebelo I don't smoke, don't gamble, don't sniff, don't drink and don't womanize. My only defect is that I lie just a little bit, sometimes. Tim Maia (brazilian pop singer)

Quartz... wrote:

where r u guys !

Thinking! Obsessivelly!:mad: "Thanks" for wrecking my weekend!:mad: X| Rui A. Rebelo I don't smoke, don't gamble, don't sniff, don't drink and don't womanize. My only defect is that I lie just a little bit, sometimes. Tim Maia (brazilian pop singer)

Ok. It's 19, check my answer in Clue for the Clueless.:) Rui A. Rebelo I don't smoke, don't gamble, don't sniff, don't drink and don't womanize. My only defect is that I lie just a little bit, sometimes. Tim Maia (brazilian pop singer)

18 [edit]Ooops it's 19 (forgot the vertical line)[/edit] The explanation is left as an exercise for the reader...:laugh: Ok: imagine 2 tetrahedrons (piramids) joined by one face (the whole thing looks like a diamond). Thats 9 lines. Now overlap it with 3 vertical planes sharing only one intersecting line which crosses the top and bottom vertices of the diamond above... Oh well, you'd need a CAD system... Rui A. Rebelo I don't smoke, don't gamble, don't sniff, don't drink and don't womanize. My only defect is that I lie just a little bit, sometimes. Tim Maia (brazilian pop singer) -- modified at 16:31 Monday 24th October, 2005

Yea, but it is wrong!:( Rui A. Rebelo I don't smoke, don't gamble, don't sniff, don't drink and don't womanize. My only defect is that I lie just a little bit, sometimes. Tim Maia (brazilian pop singer)

I don't know. It makes sense to me, but I suspect there might be something I didn't notice.:confused::~ Rui A. Rebelo I don't smoke, don't gamble, don't sniff, don't drink and don't womanize. My only defect is that I lie just a little bit, sometimes. Tim Maia (brazilian pop singer)

Huh? Ok, let me try it. So if you have 5 dots to be arranged by 3 to define planes you'd have: combination of 5 by 3= (5!) / ( (5-3)! * 3!) = 10 planes Now, for 1 plane you'd have 0 lines. For each extra plane you add you would have the existing lines plus a number of lines equal to the previously existing number of planes (since the new plane will intercept the existing just once). So:

planes lines
1 0
2 1
3 3
4 6
5 10
6 15
7 21
8 28
9 36
10 45

or, as a formula:

lines( 1 )=0 if planes=1
lines( planes )= lines( planes-1)+ planes-1 if planes > 1

Makes sense? :confused: Rui A. Rebelo I don't smoke, don't gamble, don't sniff, don't drink and don't womanize. My only defect is that I lie just a little bit, sometimes. Tim Maia (brazilian pop singer) -- modified at 13:46 Monday 24th October, 2005

Easy. 1 Separate into 3 groups of 3 coins each group. 2 Weight 2 of these groups. If one of them is heavier it has the 9gm coin. If not the other group has it. 3 Sum 2 of the coins of the heavy group. If one is heavier it is the 9gm coin. If not the remaining coin is it.:) Rui A. Rebelo I don't smoke, don't gamble, don't sniff, don't drink and don't womanize. My only defect is that I lie just a little bit, sometimes. Tim Maia (brazilian pop singer)

Yeah, it's just a case of faster connection. In A.I. they'd say "that's brute force, not real inteligence".:) Rui A. Rebelo I don't smoke, don't gamble, don't sniff, don't drink and don't womanize. My only defect is that I lie just a little bit, sometimes. Tim Maia (brazilian pop singer)

1 Pick one coin from the first bag, 2 from the second, 3 from the third, 4 from the 4th and so on ... 2 Weight all these (picked) coins together. 3 Subtract the weight from [edit]550 (=10+20+30+40+50+60+70+80+90+100)[/edit] 4 The number you get will tell you which bag has the 9gm coins.:cool: Rui A. Rebelo I don't smoke, don't gamble, don't sniff, don't drink and don't womanize. My only defect is that I lie just a little bit, sometimes. Tim Maia (brazilian pop singer) -- modified at 12:39 Monday 24th October, 2005