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Article #1483Re: Stupid Professor Tricks
From: ni... Nick Christopher
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1990 15:05
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1990 15:05
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> I like the teacher who said "RISC chips are faster than CISC chips > because they have fewer components, so the electrons don't have as far > to go." -- well, yes, but..... Reminds me of my AI teacher who had been pursued down to the hardware level on the subject of knowledge representation. The class had a couple of people who knew nothing about hardware but wanted an answer about "what a bit was". Well the profs final attempt was: student: what's a bit? how does it represent one or zero? prof: ever lick a battery? student: yes.... prof: that tingle - thats a one! That put an end to that digression. \n
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!sunic!uupsi!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!cica!iuvax!rutgers!columbia!cunixf!nick From: ni...@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Nick Christopher) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Stupid Professor Tricks Message-ID: <1990Feb27.150521.24088@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Date: 27 Feb 90 15:05:21 GMT References: <9002242148.AA01289@jade.berkeley.edu> Reply-To: ni...@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Nick Christopher) Organization: Columbia University Lines: 20 Posted: Tue Feb 27 16:05:21 1990 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit