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	Gowachin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gowachin are organized in phylums, or extended clans; their phylum identification is tattoed onto their eyelids; one of the rituals of meeting other sentients is a long blink that clearly exposes the Gowachin's phylum identification to the other.
		Gowachin are born in a graz, an indoor pool into which the tadpoles are born and live until their father tests them by swimming through the graz, eating those he can catch.
		Gowachin law is based upon the notion of a healthy disrespect for all laws; the purpose of this notion is avoid the stultifying accretion of a body of laws and precedents that bind Gowachin mechanically.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gowachin (511 words)

	The Dosadi Experiment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Gowachin are a species of frog-people (in human terms).
		The Caleban isolated a planet, Dosadi, behind "The God Wall", and onto the planet were placed humans and gowachin with an unstable form of government, the demo-pol.
		The planet itself is massively poisonous except for a narrow valley, into which millions of humans and gowachin are crowded under terrible conditions.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Dosadi_Experiment (640 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The Gowachin combined such an odd mixture of respect and disrespect for their law and all government.
		The human and Gowachin inhabitants of Dosadi have adapted to the intense competition for space and food by developing a hardness and a hyperperceptiveness and a skill in manipulating power that would enable them to rule the galaxy if they were ever to be released.
		When McKie is sent to Dosadi by the Gowachin (they hope to lure him away from his investigation on behalf of BuSab), Keila Jedrik, Warlord of Chu and the ultimate product of Dosadi breeding, accepts his coming with glee.
	tim.oreilly.com /herbert/ch08.html (3657 words)

	Talk:Gowachin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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	Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Dosadi is a inclimate planet that a group of elite Gowachin have used as the location to experiment with natural selection on their own species.
		The Gowachin sealed the entire planet with a huge energy wall, set up a single walled city on the planet and forced both Gowachin and Humans to live there with a population density of about a million people per square kilometer.
		There's a strange intergalactic court case at the end and McKie wins and the bad guy Gowachin who put everyone on the planet in the first place get their due and the Dosadi are freed from the planet.
	www.civil.ubc.ca /home/jenkinsn/review.html (3118 words)

	cars - Wreaves
		Wreaves are a fictional species of sentient beings in the Frank Herbert science fiction novels The Dosadi Experiment and Whipping Star.
		Wreaves are approximately humanoid, but resemble insects in the way that the Gowachin resemble frogs: they have insectoid mandibles in place of mouths, faceted eyes, and a chitinous exo-skeleton.
		Nonetheless, they are sentient, and take full part in the pan-sentiency, or the collective of sentient species in the narrative universe in which the novels are set.
	www.carluvers.com /cars/Wreaves (199 words)

	Swimming Tubes by Frank Herbert from The Dosadi Experiment at Technovelgy.com
		As always, the invention serves to emphasize the alien nature of the Gowachin, a frog-like people that are just one of the interesting alien races in this novel.
		All Gowachin keep a graluz, a pond for fertile females and offspring.
		The Gowachin prided themselves on staying true to their animal nature and heritage while achieving a high level of civilization.
	www.technovelgy.com /ct/content.asp?Bnum=15 (399 words)

	Learning DFA from Noisy Samples
		Our contest focuses on a fairly small DFA (nominally between 10 and 50 states), but with a high level of label noise (10%), and a moderate training sample size (5,000).
		Note: this was updated June 3rd to add an optional parameter into the training set: the nominal size of the target machine (highlighted with yellow background) - thanks to Conor Ryan for querying this.
		We use a plain ASCII file format - in fact very similar to the format as used by Gowachin.
	cswww.essex.ac.uk /staff/sml/gecco/NoisyDFA.html (675 words)

	Reporter Magazine On-Line - The Dosadi Experiment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The Gowachin, a species that is briefly described as "frog-men anarchistic legalists," have performed a highly illegal experiment.
		With the Gowachin threatening to destroy the planet if a solution cannot be found, Mckie must find out exactly what it is that the Dosadi have become, and what it is that the Gowachin fear.
		The Gowachin legal system that Mckie is working in is one where the guilty go free, the innocent die, and no one in the court arena is above death.
	www.reportermag.com /vnews/display.v/ART/2003/03/28/3e84237223971 (499 words)

	Encyclopedia: Gowachin
		A fictional race of frog-like humanoids featured in the Frank Herbert books The Dosadi Experiment and Whipping Star.
		Jorg X. McKie is the only human ever admitted to the Gowachin bar.
		His greatest and most admired legal victory in a Gowachin trial came when he demonstrated to the court that the price of eternal freedom is eternal laziness.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Gowachin (538 words)

	Gowachin - Result for Gowachin - Meaning of Gowachin - Definition of Gowachin - Dictionary of Meaning - ...
		'''Gowachin''' are a fictional race of frog-like humanoids featured in the Frank Herbert books '' The Dosadi Experiment '' and '' Whipping Star ''.
		Gowachin are organized in ''phylums'', or extended clans; their phylum identification is tattoo tattoed onto their eyelids; one of the rituals of meeting other sentients is a long blink that clearly exposes the Gowachin's phylum identification to the other.
		There you find a list of all editors and the possibility to edit the original text of the article Gowachin.
	www.mauspfeil.net /Gowachin.html (571 words)

	Graluz by Frank Herbert from The Dosadi Experiment at Technovelgy.com
		The Gowachin are a frog-like race; they are at least as intelligent as people, and have a remarkable social organization that is slowly revealed in the novel.
		The Graluz - that central pool and sanctuary for females, the place where the Gowachin raised those tads which survived the ravenous weeding by the male parent - the Graluz always remained a central fixation for the Gowachin.
		Frank Herbert's novels contain a wide variety of species; the Gowachin, the Palenki, the Wreaves.
	www.technovelgy.com /ct/content.asp?Bnum=515 (282 words)

	Caleban - free-definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Communication between sentients and Calebans occurs when a Caleban initiates contact with a sentient, putting the sentient into a trance state during which apparently telepathic dialogue can occur.
		Communication is only 'apparent' because the Caleban, so different in nature from the normal run of humans, Gowachin, Wreaves, Laclacs, Taprisiots, Pan Spechi, and other sentients, have difficulty expressing their mental frame of reference, and understanding the weltanschauung of sentients.
		Given the discrepancy, it's difficult for sentients to say for certain that they are using words the same way (this difficulty is explored more deeply in Orson Scott Card 's Ender series of novels).
	www.free-definition.com /Caleban.html (582 words)

	Fresh Bilge: entry#94 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The planetary surface is utterly hostile, its vegetation toxic to non-Dosadi lifeforms.
		The population is clustered around a single, enormous city, which is the scene of an obscene social experiment commingling two dissimilar sentient species: humans from Terra and amphibious Gowachin from the watery world of Tandaloor.
		When I read articles like this one, or this one, I could wish that Gowachin legal practices were adopted in these United States.
	bilge.seablogger.com /archives/000094.php (857 words)

	Fresh Bilge: Comment on Gowachin Law (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		It's always been one of my favorites because of its depiction of Gowachin society; I like the idea that individuals should be able to "float at their own level."
		The first is the idea of a pressure-cooker social environment (sort of like Manhattan?) where terrifyingly competent people completely without moral compunction are bred.
		The second is the idea of levels in Gowachin society; family, clan, national leadership, and then a sort of "superclan" led by the Mrreg, who makes species-level decisions.
	bilge.seablogger.com /mt/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=94 (261 words)

	Grammatical Inference Competitions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The competition is now over but you can still download the challenge problems and find a couple of articles on Abbadingo One at the Abbadingo site and also in the proceedings of the Fourth International Colloquium on Grammatical Inference (ICGI'98).
		Users are allowed to generate their own problem (by specifying the size of the target DFA, the number of training examples, and the noise level).
		On behalf of the organizers of Gowachin we invite you to join the fray!
	www.cs.iastate.edu /~honavar/gi/competitions.html (228 words)

	FT - The Brown Wedge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The ConSentiency is the galactic society in which humans mix with Wreaves, Laclacs, Chithers, Preylings, Soborips, Palenki, Taprisiots, the Pan Spechi, the Gowachin and Calebans.
		The Gowachin are a highly civilised and cultured but also ruthless Frog-people: basic to their culture is the moment in child-development when Dad jumps into the tadpole pool and culls his tad-kids, so that only the smartest and swiftest survive.
		The Gowachin prefer drama, subtlety and innovation to the establishment of mere truth: it's a Nietzschean legal system, you might say.
	www.freakytrigger.co.uk /wedge/2004_07_01_wedge_archive.html (14719 words)

	The Dosadi Experiment Information (Books/SciFi/Fantasy) - Ratings, Reviews, Prices and Research Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The 'hero' Jorj X McKie is a human who works for BuSab - the Bureau Of Sabotage, a secret service set up to slow down the wheels of government.
		He is summoned by the Gowachin, a froglike species, to help them deal with their experiment on Dosadi which has gone horribly wrong.
		Dosadi (surprise, surprise) is a largely unhabitable planet, apart from one City into which are 80 million beings are crammed - all either Gowachin or Human.
	www.gmecca.com /Find_n_Buy/ModeX/1_AmazonSafeShopping/1_Subsys/F115082_The_Dosadi_Experiment.html (205 words)

	Mensa 76 - Reviews - Books, Movies, Music
		Shut off from the rest of humanity, and confined with a race of frog-like beings called the Gowachin, humanity reveals its most basic instincts.
		An intriguing back-drop to the story is the Gowachin legal system by which Mckie is bound.
		Under Gowachin law, the lawyers take their lives in their hands when they enter the Courtarena -- the losing counsel is slain by the victor; a practice which, in my humble opinion, we should seriously look at as a means of overhauling our own somewhat bloated legal system!
	mensa76.us.mensa.org /reviews.htm (3318 words)

	Re: BuSab quote
		It reduces all (manipulators and manipulated alike) to a deadly "mass effect." The central assumption, that manipulation of individual personalities can achieve uniform behavioral reposes, has been exposed as a lie by many species but never with more telling effect than by the Gowachin on Dosadi.
		We know that too much law injures a society; it is the same with too little law.
		We are like the balancing force among the Gowachin; without hope of achieving heaven in the society of mortals, we seek the unattainable.
	www.talkaboutpeople.com /group/alt.fan.dune/messages/92355.html (1160 words)

	Allscifi.com Book Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		In the far future the galactic federation discovers an experiment in forced evolution on the planet Dosadi.
		The froglike Gowachin have created the ultimate survival of the fittest environment, and now the experiment is almost out of control.
		The Dosadian populace are now so tough and so resourceful that they are capable of breaking out of their brutal prison planet and overrunning the galaxy.
	www.allscifi.com /BookRView.asp?BRID=13112 (144 words)

	Fresh Bilge: entry#97 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		"The Dosadi Experiment," which I discussed in yesterday's "Gowachin Law" post, also bears the mark of its author's grief.
		The leading character, McKie, falls in love with the feral and fearsome Jedrik, the human weapon bred to break the "God Wall" that imprisoned the Dosadi population.
		It also proves that I've a lifelong propensity for being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
	bilge.seablogger.com /archives/000097.php (582 words)

	Herbert Frank 02 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Its existence is threatened by the discovery of a secret, deadly experiment on the planet Dosadi.
		There the frog-like Gowachin have created a brutal society of 850 million beings, humans and Gowachin confined in an area of 40 square kilometres.
		However, the experiment in overcrowding is getting out of control.
	www.rodcameron.co.uk /Reviews/F%20-%20M/Herbert%20Frank%2002.htm (211 words)

	Frank Herbert : 4 Complete Novels (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Jorg X McKie must communicate with the cryptic Caliban and find the connection between the whippings and the disappearance of the other Calibans and a threat to the entire world.
		The Dosadi Experiment brings McKie back again, this time to find out the secret of a Gowachin (froglike sentient being) experiment on the brutal and toxic planet Dosadi.
		The Gowachin seek to control McKie and manipulate the Dosadi situation, but McKie makes some unexpected moves.
	www.reversephonedirectory.com /products/index.html?item_id=0517403013&search_type=AsinSearch&locale=us (393 words)

	Ex Bibliotheca (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The whole issue of whether or not the Dosadi are dangerous to the galaxy is sidestepped, in favor of a lot of tangled stuff about body-swapping and the Gowachin legal system.
		In fact, the descriptions of the Gowachin legal system are one of the most interesting parts of the book.
		It's genuinely different from anything we Humans have ever put together, but coherent and does seem to work.
	www.panix.com /~zackw/exbib/2002/July/16 (209 words)

	Gowachin: DFA Learning Competition
		A test version of a follow-on to Abbadingo One (but not Abbadingo Two, which will be different) called
		Gowachin, is now available for your grammar learning pleasure.
		Once it is shaken down and has proved its value, it will be moved to the main Abbadingo server.
	abbadingo.cs.nuim.ie /gowachin (54 words)

	Frank Herbert's Sietch: Quotes from The Dosadi Experiment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Here, they showed us the "Walden Fallacy" in ultimate foolishness, explaining: "Given any species which reproduces by genetic mingling such that every individual is a unique specimen, all attempts to impose a decision matrix based on assumed uniform behavior will prove lethal."
		Choose containable violence when violence cannot be avoided.
		For the Gowachin, to stand alone against all adversity is the most sacred moment of existence.
	www.caveofbirds.com /mckie/dosadiexperimentq.html (1465 words)

	RE: Scanning (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.
		--The Dosadi Lesson: A Gowachin Assessment "Their law!
		--Lessons of Choice, The BuSab Manual For the Gowachin, to stand alone against all adversity is the most sacred moment of existence.
	www.peg.com /lists/api/web/msg03909.html (1621 words)

	Lucas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		We've developed new evolutionary algorithms for inferring Deterministic Finite Automata (DFA) and Finite State Transducers from samples of data.
		Learning DFA is a well known problem, and we're recently tested our method on the excellent Gowachin server.
		We find the evolutionary method outperforms all other methods (most of which are based on heuristic state merging algorithms) when learning small machines (e.g.
	sh656.essex.ac.uk /staff/sml/newlucas.htm (502 words)

	700 Year Old Mickey Mouse Found - Ambrosia Software, Inc. web board (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		I like Frank Herbert's take on legal systems.
		The Gowachin have a court system in which the deafeated lawyer and their client are ritually killed.
		We need to implement that in the court systems.
	www.ambrosiasw.com /webboard/Forum10/HTML/007690.html (661 words)

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