http://www.chuckwagner.com/yertle.html

We got to read "Yertle the Turtle" by Dr. Seuss for my CS678 Advanced Neural Nets and Machine Learning. That's right, we read it for a 600 level Computer Science course. There was good reason of course, we needed to make the point that you can stack as many levels of meta-learners as you want, but in the end, it's just turtles all the way down, and you've only pushed your problem up a meta-level.

What's more interesting to me about this reading, though, was how much Yertle sounds like Bush:

"I'm [president], and you're only a [citizen] named Mack."

"I'm Yertle the Turtle! Oh, marvelous me!
For I am the ruler of all that I see!"


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We need only attack.
And I'll rule Iraq.
And I'll rule Iran.
I'll even rule Afghanistan.
I'm the President.
And you're simply a resident.

"It's for your own good", I tell them each day.
When bad things happen, someone must pay.
So let's rattle the saber and monger for war.
I must, I must, I must rule more.
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"You hush up your mouth!" howled the mighty King Yertle.
"You've no right to talk to the world's highest turtle.
I rule from the clouds! Over land! Over sea!
There's nothing, no, NOTHING, that's higher than me!"

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