hendler@BRILLIG.UMD.EDU (Jim Hendler) (12/07/87)
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.