30 Oct
2013
30 Oct
'13
2:24 p.m.
> I was once asked 'Don't you think
<foo> should be repaired by a trained
> engineer'. My reply was 'No. I think it should be repaired by soembody
> who actually understands how it should work and can find out what it is
> actually doing. Not somebody who can just read and follow a manual'.
On Wed, 30 Oct 2013, Chuck Guzis wrote:
But the old follow-the-flowchart method really did
work well, didn't it?
Only as well as the level of expertise of the guy who created the
flowchart.
I took an "Expert Systems" class in grad school. Not surprisingly, it was
a bit of a disappointment, as the majority of examples really weren't
anything more than implementations of troubleshooting flowcharts, and not
very good ones at that. For example, one of the examples in the textbook
was for troubleshooting motorcycle starting problems - if none of the
prior tests found the problem it unequivocably declared the problem to be
fuel tank vent. Sorry, but that is not a suitable fall-thru handler!
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com