On 1/16/23 22:23, Chris via cctalk wrote: > But which of those constitutes guessing? The computer would likely have > beaten me to the answer by at least a second :). It's easy enough to look up, > for a computer that is. But in that instance a computer wouldn't need to > guess. And for me, there were no multiple choices. It was hardly an educated > guess - I never read the friggin book as I was supposed to! (the Odyssey). > But the answer was a word I was familiar with from childhood, never actually > knowing what it's origin was (mentor). > "Guessing" is nothing more than an estimate of the likely answer based on an incomplete dataset. If you had, for example, no dataset at all, "Blueberries" would be as good a guess as any to every question.
--Chuck
