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...Southern California, eventually became a charming monster of self-indulgence. Women, beginning with his mother, lined up to mother him. He had two wives and physically abused them both. He drank incessantly: "There are people who knew him for years and never, to their knowledge, saw him sober." Insofar as such behavior can be redeemed, Exley did so through his writing skill and his sense of humor, which was usually aimed at his munificent failings. As a person he was largely dreadful, but as a character in Yardley's book he commands attention...
What we can agree on, however, is that IBM has created a computer that plays chess very well. And insofar as playing chess well is something that we think only intelligent beings can do, it can thus be said that a computer was constructed which displays one aspect of intelligent behavior. But one might object that Deep Blue just does a whole lot of calculations very quickly, and that's not intelligence...
...many crashes are the product of terrorism anyway? I have been in airplanes where the overhead bins open with gay abandon at the slightest bump, where the reading lights flicker with a hypnotic frequency and where the food, insofar as it can be detected on the plate, is seldom warmed above the temperature of the ambient stratosphere. One can only pray in these circumstances that the subcontractor in charge of the cabin was not also entrusted with engine maintenance. As for the crucial issue of when to go up and when to go down: we read of air-traffic-control...
Your article of Friday, Sept. 20, was accurate insofar as it called attention to some of the shortcomings of the lottery system. Accurate, but incomplete...
Finally, I admit that this has not caused me to lose a moment of sleep, except insofar as it has pertained to my career...