From: earlcox@earlcoxreports.com   
      
   OK, our comments are not very friendly, but, compared to many of the other   
   AI newsgroups, the fuzzy group seems to be both moribund and consistently   
   flooded with newbies asking questions that are equivalent to "explain fuzzy   
   logic" or "tell me everything you know about X so I can do my research paper   
   without doing any real work."   
      
   It seems to me that the news group could serve an important service if it   
   brought together a wide spectrum of fuzzy logic workers, researchers, as   
   well as students, each of whom might be interested in addressing some of the   
   more important topics in fuzzy logic and fuzzy reasoning. And I mean topics   
   beyond the tedious debate on the differences between fuzzy logic and   
   probability. I mean questions (to give a few examples) about the formulation   
   of fuzzy models, methods for executing hybrid rules, the use of time series   
   lead/lag relationships in fuzzy knowledge bases, the techniques for   
   combining and exploiting fuzzy evidence, the ways in which fuzzy rules are   
   run in parallel, ways in which expectancy variability in fuzzy numbers can   
   impact the solution space of a model, the use of fuzzy logic in genetic   
   algorithms, and the ability to generate rule-based fuzzy systems through   
   evolutionary programming techniques.   
      
   If we old time surfers of the fuzzy news group are getting grumpy its   
   precisely because we see the same shallow, meaningless questions asked over   
   and over and over again. At a time when the entire internet is being swamped   
   with worthless advertising spam, we should use this forum to illuminate   
   issues that play a critical role in the design, development, testing, and   
   deployment of real world fuzzy models. Apparently the universities have   
   neither the interest nor the experienced professors to fill this huge void.   
   Given the right questions, people like myself, Bill Siler, Rich Shepard, and   
   Nico di Bois would, in most cases, be happy to engage in a reasoned debate   
   or discussion.   
      
   That's my two cents worth.   
   Earl   
      
      
      
      
      
      
   "John Williams"  wrote in message   
   news:1if2i018p7ld17t7nq0dtuosdtrt31onmd@4ax.com...   
   > On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 23:41:09 +0200, "Nico du Bois"    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   > >Hello, my advise is that you better do a lot of more research yourself,   
   > >before asking questions like these in this newsgroup. This is not a   
   > >"new-comer level".   
   > >Both William Siler and Earl Cox are already trying to get and keep this   
   > >platform to a higher level. But perhaps we should change the name of this   
   > >newsgroup or start a new one.   
   >   
   > Yup, it's as friendly as a impacted wisdom tooth, and just as   
   > useful...   
   >   
   > --   
   >   
   > Regards,   
   > John Williams   
      
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