[ExI] free lisp textbook, was: RE: ai class at stanford

[spike]

On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 08:48:02PM -0700, spike wrote:

>> Friends, it is exactly this kind of thing that keeps my hopes high 
> that we are indeed standing on the threshold of a dream.  It was 
> recent enough to be fresh in our collective memory that knowledge was 
> so very expensive.  Now so much of it is free, we cannot even collect 
> the gifts in the severely limited time we have on this old planet.  spike

>...Nevermind that about 0.1% of total population are even interested in
checking out the goods.  --  Eugen* Leitl 


Sure that is one way to look at it, but do keep in mind that 0.1% of the
total population is over 6 million humans.  Six million human minds form an
awesome force, a stunning brain wave with unpredictable consequences.

spike