[Lvlug] dry technical literature funnies

[C. Hever]

I'll start it off

"An attractive aspect of content-addressable memory is that it is
inherently fault-tolerant. Imagine someone asked you to guess who they
were thinking of: 'This man was a British Conservative politician. He
became Prime Minister in 1978 and was Prime Minister during the
Falklands War. He was ousted from office by his own party, being held
responsible for the fiasco of the Poll Tax. He was eventually replaced
as Prime Minister by John Major.' You could probably suggest 'Margaret
Thatcher' as an answer despite the fact that some of the information
is incorrect. Mrs Thatcher did not become Prime Minister until 1979,
of course."

from Introduction to Connectionist Modelling of Cognitive Processes

I LOOOOOOOOOOL'D when I read that

There's one from a linear programming book that said something about
making fractions of pieces of furniture (the basic simplex algorithm
is based on all real numbers, not just integers); I need to dig that
one up.

-- 
"Men seek retreats for themselves, houses in the country, sea-shores,
and mountains; and thou too art wont to desire such things very much.
But this is altogether a mark of the most common sort of men, for it
is in thy power whenever thou shalt choose to retire into thyself. For
nowhere either with more quiet or more freedom from trouble does a man
retire than into his own soul." -- Marcus Aurelius