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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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| First Contact | ||
| The initial encounter with a non-human race. |
This is the first instance of this great phrase in science fiction.
| He had piloted the Adastra to its first contact with the civilization of another solar system. His lifework was done and he was wholly prepared to rest...
The space ship swelled on the visiplate as Jack turned the knob. He brought it to an apparent distance of a few hundred yards only... |
| Technovelgy from Proxima Centauri,
by Murray Leinster. Published by Astounding Stories in 1935 Additional resources -
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The phrase "first contact" first appeared in the late nineteenth century, in an anthropological sense.
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