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From: tomh@proxftl.UUCP (Tom Holroyd)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Aah, but not in the fire brigade, jazz ensembles, rowing eights,...
Keywords: I should too :-)
Message-ID: <239@proxftl.UUCP>
Date: 31 May 88 15:33:09 GMT
References: <770@onion.cs.reading.ac.uk> <1177@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu> <1171@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk>
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In article <1171@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk>, gilbert@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Gilbert Cockton) writes:
> In article <5499@venera.isi.edu> smoliar@vaxa.isi.edu.UUCP (Stephen Smoliar) writes:
> >The problem comes in deciding
> >WHAT needs to be explicitly articulated and what can be left in the "implicit
> >background."
> ...
> For people who haven't spent all their life in academia or
> intellectual work, there will be countless examples of carrying out
> work in near 100% implicit background (watch fire and ambulance
> personelle who've worked together as a team for ages, watch a basketball
> team, a steeplejack and his mate, a good jazz ensemble, ...)

No.  Fire and ambulance personnel have regulations, basketball has rules
and teams discuss strategy and tactics during practice, and even jazz
musicians use sheet music sometimes.  I don't mean to say that implicit
communication doesn't exist, just that it's not as useful.  I don't know
how to build steeples, but I'll bet it can be written down.

Articulate as much as you can.  It's true we learn by doing, but we need to
be told what to do in case it's not obvious (eating is obvious).

Tom Holroyd
UUCP: {uunet,codas}!novavax!proxftl!tomh

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