Just before you think the goal you always aimed at is never going to come through, you need to stop and think about Schaeffer. I was going through a tech blog and came across Schaeffer's story. He started work on a checkers oddesey. Checkers is a board game otherwise known as draughts. Schaeffer wanted to create a checkers engine that will compete with any checkers grand master. He wanted to write an algorithm that will be a solution to the checker game. He started work when computing power and technology was errupting. From the time he started to the time his algorithm was tested by world's best checkers grand master was almost 16 years. Such a long time! Today we have checkers solutions. Schaeffer's checker engine has been a breakthrough in the science of computing and AI. 16 years have passed, and the time is no longer relevant, but the product. Time is a process: time reveals what hasn't been seen yet. It doesn't matter how long it takes; it ...
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