Scruffy vs Messy - What's the difference?
scruffy | messy |
untidy in appearance
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".
In a disorderly state; chaotic; disorderly.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= (of a person) Prone to causing mess.
(of a situation) Difficult or unpleasant to deal with.
As adjectives the difference between scruffy and messy
is that scruffy is untidy in appearance while messy is in a disorderly state; chaotic; disorderly.As a noun scruffy
is {{cx|informal|lang=en}} 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".scruffy
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(er)See also
* scruffNoun
(scruffies)messy
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(er)Boundary problems, passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory.}}