17 Jan
2023
17 Jan
'23
4:56 p.m.
On 1/16/23 22:23, Chris via cctalk wrote:
But which of those constitutes guessing? The computer
would likely have beaten me to the answer by at least a second :). It's easy enough to
look up, for a computer that is. But in that instance a computer wouldn't need to
guess. And for me, there were no multiple choices. It was hardly an educated guess - I
never read the friggin book as I was supposed to! (the Odyssey). But the answer was a word
I was familiar with from childhood, never actually knowing what it's origin was
(mentor).
"Guessing" is nothing more than an estimate of the likely answer based
on an incomplete dataset. If you had, for example, no dataset at all,
"Blueberries" would be as good a guess as any to every question.
--Chuck