Re: ZeN/NZ

"marksteere@xxxxxxxxx" <marksteere@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
On Dec 12, 3:43 am, Phil Carmody <thefatphil_demun...@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

It seems the problem with Mark is that he doesn't satisfy all
the former criteria, the ones which would make an anti-social
attitude more forgivable, namely those about being well-
researched and giving attribution correctly.

I give credit where credit is due. When I accidentally rediscovered
Hex, I removed it from my website and gave proper attribution.

The concept of anyone pretending to be well-versed in the art
and science of abstract games _not_ being familiar with Hex I
find completely absurd.

Absurd, but remarkably familiar. I moderate a few mathematical
mailing lists specialising in prime numbers. The number of
times I see posters re-inventing the wheel (quite literally
sometimes) is enormous. And most annoying.

The information is out there. There are well-known classic texts
documenting all the fundamental principles of both fields. There
is no reason why anyone should reinvent or rediscover anything
so simple and common.

Nobody owns the torus game. It's just too damn obvious.

If you can't have it (credit, that is), no-one can?

Phil
--
I tried the Vista speech recognition by running the tutorial. I was
amazed, it was awesome, recognised every word I said. Then I said the
wrong word ... and it typed the right one. It was actually just
detecting a sound and printing the expected word! -- pbhj on /.
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