out at the heels vs scruffy

out at the heels

adj
  • Wearing stockings that are worn out. 

  • Shabby, or in a poor plight. 

scruffy

adj
  • Untidy in appearance. 

  • Scurfy. 

noun
  • An artificial intelligence researcher who believes that intelligence is too complicated (or computationally intractable) to be solved with the sorts of homogeneous system favoured by the "neats". 

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