[geeks] geeks Digest, Vol 86, Issue 14

[Phil Stracchino]

On 01/19/10 07:49, Fred wrote:
> The teachers "teaching" "fourth row, second icon from the right in the middle
> of the screen" type of stuff need to be taken out back and slapped around. 
> That is NOT teaching IMHO.

That.  That's not "teaching", that's "training", as in "trained monkeys"
or "trained pigeons".  Heck, pigeons can be trained to be SMARTER than
that.  DARPA projects have successfully trained pigeons to watch objects
appearing on a screen and peck at the one that looks like a tank.  (I
shit you not.)


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