Re: Olcott is cured of CrackPottery! (Halting Problem)

From: Peter Olcott (olcott_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: 09/08/04 

Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2004 01:43:12 GMT

"Eray Ozkural exa" <erayo@bilkent.edu.tr> wrote in message news:fa69ae35.0409071039.111af0a5@posting.google.com...
> "Peter Olcott" <olcott@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message news:<Jp__c.317224$OB3.316495@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>...
> > Will was using very bad reasoning, and everyone else (besides
> > NewsToMe@comcast.net) was using reasoning that did not
> > distinguish itself from Will's bad reasoning. All that this shows is
> > that these conditions form an extraordinary burden for me to
> > understand the valid (yet incomplete) arguments. In other words
> > that's the reason that it took me so long to get it. I really do have
> > a (barely) genius IQ, I really do have a bachelor's degree in computer
> > science, I really did place in the top ten percent of all of my classes.
>
> Well, Peter, as I tried to tell a friend last year, intelligence and
> knowledge are not the same thing. Even the most intelligent person
> would have to devote long hours and days of study to understand theory
> of computation. You didn't do that, you underestimated the difficulty
> involved. Therefore you have no excuse for the mess that you've made.
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Eray Ozkural

Yup, I screwed up big time, and only have myself to blame.
I will never again make any mistake of this magnitude. The
main thing that I learned was humility. As Dirty Harry (Clint
Eastwood) is famous for saying, "A man's got to know his
limitations". Proving that a famous computer scientist was
wrong for sixty eight years (and no-one noticing) is probably
hundreds-fold beyond mine.

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