tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025880770474050744.post6903439869366392499..comments2007-10-03T06:38:02.853-07:00Mark Watson, author and consultanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05514730816583918651noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025880770474050744.post-80927672327744398832007-10-03T06:38:00.000-07:002007-10-03T06:38:00.000-07:00Hello Peter,<BR/><BR/>My original intention on the Ruby AI book was to write the chapter 1 tutorial to just cover language features needed in the book. Hopefully chapter 1 will end up being a very small part of the book :-)<BR/><BR/>re: SAIC: this week my wife and I are in San Diego to see relatives, but we spent most of yesterday with old friends from SAIC. Almost everyone I keep in contact with appreciated time spent at SAIC, but are having more fun since leaving.Mark Watson, author and consultanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05514730816583918651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025880770474050744.post-34251648032116132462007-10-03T05:28:00.000-07:002007-10-03T05:28:00.000-07:00I came accross your AI with Ruby page. I'm also a retired SAIC person and dabbled a bit with neural networks about the same time you worked on it.<BR/><BR/>My comment on your book in progress is not to talk about Ruby as an introduction to the language, but more as programming constructs in Ruby that are usefull in AI. The person coming to your book should be assumed to have sufficient knowledge of Ruby. You're talking about a pretty advanced topic, not tackeled by a novice programmer.Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12270063749472626736noreply@blogger.com