Machine discovery: Reply to comments

• Book ID: 104631411
• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 456 KB
• Volume: 1
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1233-1821
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00124611

✦ Synopsis

As the commentators on my paper have all launched their remarks from quite different springboards, addressing different issues, it will be most convenient to reply to them separately. "Reply" is hardly the right word, for I am in basic agreement with most of what they say. Let's say that I will comment on the comments.

1. In about five cases, including the three numbered items in Professor Gra~6hoff's comments, the evidence from the notebooks (and from Homes' interviews with Krebs) was, in our judgment, wholly insufficient to establish the causal basis for Krebs' choice of the next experiment or hypothesis. In those cases (discussed at