Word: errors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...then proceed to ferret out the truths that it contains--much as a quarterback might spend some time sizing up the opposing team before he starts mapping his own strategies, instead of launching into all his tricks straightaway in the hope that he will learn by trial and error...
Jeff Grate singled in the sixth--Harvard's first hit of the game. He reached second on a pickoff error, went to third when Dick Manchester's fly was dropped in left field, and scored on John Ignacio's sacrifice...
...addition to the eight juniors announced Saturday, Phi Beta kappa has elected George R. Merriam III, Kirkland, Chemistry and Physics. The ommission was due to an error in the Registrar's Office...
...Error discovered at Ladoga...
...between the two (HAL, for example, asks Bowman to show him some sketches, then comments on them). This equilibrium where men and machine perversely share characteristics shatters only when HAL mistakenly detects a fault in the communications system. The HAL computers cannot make mistakes and a confirmation of the error would necessitate disconnection. At this point the balance shifts again: Bowman asks HAL to explain his mistake and HAL denies it, attributing it to "human error"; we are reminded of the maxim, "a bad workman blames his tools," and realize HAL is acting from a distinctly human point-of-view...