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From: hendler@BRILLIG.UMD.EDU (Jim Hendler)
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Subject: Re: Neural Nets are science
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Date: 7 Dec 87 14:08:55 GMT
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I'd like to congratulate John Nagle on his sense of humor.  Without 
arguing about his premise I'd like to point out that by his argument
everytime I make a phone call I am doing science by comparing my results
with Alexander Graham Bells.  Building something and exploring how it 
works is not even close to the scientific methodology.  Experimentation
requires small little things like hypotheses and analytic methods.  I hope
Mr. Nagle can succeed at developing a scientific approach to neural nets,
but comparing results??? Not even close.