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"You have to budget the number of fuzzy rules you use to control a system. It turns out, you can state the optimality principle in three words: 'patch the bumps.'"
- Bart Kosko
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| Artificial Butterfly | ||
| A mechanical, robotic butterfly. |
In the park of the future.
| He patted a dusty synthetic tree and crossed the unliving turf past holograms of swaying flowers to seat himself upon an orange plastic bench... Artificial butterflies darted along invisible beams... Concealed aerosols released the odors of flowers at regular intervals.
One of the fake butterflies passed too near, faltered and fell to the ground. |
| Technovelgy from Changeling,
by Roger Zelazny. Published by Ace in 1980 Additional resources -
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