https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1304.3090/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29440564urn:hackerpapers:mention:1304.3090:29440564Sat, 04 Dec 2021 13:00:26 GMT<p>Interestingly Mycin was used to demonstrate the limitations of rule based inference and with trying to handle uncertainty in Rule based systems by two of Shortliffe’s students in the fantastic paper “The myth of modularity” [1] which argued for probabilistic approaches to reasoning. 1. https://arxiv.org/abs/1304.3090</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1304.3090/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cs.AI