Def.: H. Mobius Loop????
Cory Coleman
Hi,
Firstly, sorry if this question doesn't belong in this group: I'm not
entirely sure where it does belong. Secondly, my sincere apologizes if
this is a stupid, oft-asked question:
In more than one place, I have heard the term "H Mobius Loop" or
"H-Mobius Loop" used in connection with autonomous goal-seeking
programs. As you've no doubt noticed, I'm not particularly fluent in
this branch of CS, but from what I gather, the loops aren't particularly
things you'd want to have.
In the interest of bandwidth conservation, I won't give you the
encyclopedia detailing how it is that I have come to need this
information, but trust me, it is highly imporant that I find an answer
somehow or another.
If you're best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard
from a guy who knows this kid who may have seen something about this,
please, tell me.
Help me, you're my only hope.
Cory
cory.c...@mohican.mwsu.edu
(if possible, please respond by email, I don't have easy access to
usenet)
Simon Read
From: s read cranfield ac uk
. @ . .
Cory Coleman (cory.c...@mohican.mwsu.edu) wrote:
> In more than one place, I have heard the term "H Mobius Loop" or
> "H-Mobius Loop" used in connection with autonomous goal-seeking
> programs.
Hee hee hee. April 1st isn't for a few days yet...
You can't fool us that easily, you know!
The post-mortem on HAL (which was done in the novel 2010, written
by Arthur C. Clarke) concluded that HAL got into an H-Mobius Loop
and that this was something which autonomous goal-seeking programs
could suffer from. That was the explanation for HAL's anomalous
behaviour i.e. trying to kill all the crew.
> Help me, you're my only hope.
Why? Are you on a deep-space mission and are you experiencing
anomalous behaviour from your computing equipment?
Simon
Nichael Cramer
Simon Read <bl...@blurgh.bleah.retch> writes:
Cory Coleman (cory.c...@mohican.mwsu.edu) wrote:
> In more than one place, I have heard the term "H Mobius Loop" or
> "H-Mobius Loop" used in connection with autonomous goal-seeking
> programs.
Hee hee hee. April 1st isn't for a few days yet...
You can't fool us that easily, you know!
The post-mortem on HAL (which was done in the novel 2010, written
by Arthur C. Clarke) concluded that HAL got into an H-Mobius Loop
and that this was something which autonomous goal-seeking programs
could suffer from. That was the explanation for HAL's anomalous
behaviour i.e. trying to kill all the crew.
An interesting footnote is that in the _movie_ it was called a "H-Mobius
Loop", but in the book it was refered to as a "Hofstadter-Mobius" strip
(i.e. in reference to doughof).
-
Nichael Cramer
work: ncr...@bbn.com
home: nic...@sover.net
http://www.sover.net/~nichael/
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