iambluu (brandonluu145)

Race #378

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Official speed 60.57 wpm (109.76 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start July 25, 2018 11:53:11am UTC
Race Finish July 25, 2018 11:55:01am UTC
Outcome No win (2 of 3)
Accuracy 97.0%
Points 97.93
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The view that machines cannot give rise to surprises is due, I believe, to a fallacy to which philosophers and mathematicians are particularly subject. This is the assumption that as soon as a fact is presented to a mind all consequences of that fact spring into the mind simultaneously with it. It is a very useful assumption under many circumstances, but one too easily forgets that it is false. A natural consequence of doing so is that one then assumes that there is no virtue in the mere working out of consequences from data and general principles.