Re: [agi] Development Environments for AI (a few non-religious comments!)

2007-04-19 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
On Feb 21, 2007, at 6:09 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote: On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 08:59:51AM -0500, Mark Waser wrote: do well. What are the special requirements/functionalities of the indices that you believe that enterprise DBs are not *optimized* to handle? Relational databases are designed to do

Re: [agi] Development Environments for AI (a few non-religious comments!)

2007-02-22 Thread Mark Waser
or spacetime points they are near to ... -- Ben - Original Message - From: Ben Goertzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: agi@v2.listbox.com Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 6:34 PM Subject: **SPAM** Re: **SPAM** Re: [agi] Development Environments for AI (a few non-religious comments

Re: [agi] Development Environments for AI (a few non-religious comments!)

2007-02-22 Thread Mark Waser
. - Original Message - From: Ben Goertzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: agi@v2.listbox.com Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 8:13 PM Subject: **SPAM** Re: [agi] Development Environments for AI (a few non-religious comments!) Mark Waser wrote: So from the below, can I take it that you're a big

Re: [agi] Development Environments for AI (a few non-religious comments!)

2007-02-22 Thread Ben Goertzel
] Development Environments for AI (a few non-religious comments!) Mark Waser wrote: I am pretty confident that the specialized indices we use (implemented directly in C++) are significantly faster than implementing comparable indices in an enterprise DB would be. Wow. You've floored me given

Re: [agi] Development Environments for AI (a few non-religious comments!)

2007-02-22 Thread Mark Waser
Subject: **SPAM** Re: [agi] Development Environments for AI (a few non-religious comments!) Mark Waser wrote: I am pretty confident that the specialized indices we use (implemented directly in C++) are significantly faster than implementing comparable indices in an enterprise DB would

Re: [agi] Development Environments for AI (a few non-religious comments!)

2007-02-22 Thread Ben Goertzel
:* David Clark mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *To:* agi@v2.listbox.com mailto:agi@v2.listbox.com *Sent:* Wednesday, February 21, 2007 2:27 PM *Subject:* **SPAM** Re: [agi] Development Environments for AI (a few non-religious comments!) Unless the database is built into the language

Re: [agi] Development Environments for AI (a few non-religious comments!)

2007-02-22 Thread Mark Waser
. - Original Message - From: Ben Goertzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: agi@v2.listbox.com Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 11:28 AM Subject: **SPAM** Re: [agi] Development Environments for AI (a few non-religious comments!) Mark Waser wrote: That just wouldn't work at all for the Novamente

Re: [agi] Development Environments for AI (a few non-religious comments!)

2007-02-22 Thread Ben Goertzel
, February 22, 2007 11:28 AM Subject: **SPAM** Re: [agi] Development Environments for AI (a few non-religious comments!) Mark Waser wrote: That just wouldn't work at all for the Novamente design. Is the problem translating from C++ to C# or something else? Translating NM to C# would

Re: [agi] Development Environments for AI (a few non-religious comments!)

2007-02-22 Thread Mark Waser
PROTECTED] To: agi@v2.listbox.com Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 1:19 PM Subject: **SPAM** Re: [agi] Development Environments for AI (a few non-religious comments!) Mark Waser wrote: :-) I think that you don't realize that .NET in the SQL engine has all the advantages of standard .NET

Re: [agi] Development Environments for AI (a few non-religious comments!)

2007-02-21 Thread Mark Waser
Environments for AI (a few non-religious comments!) Also, why would 32 - 64 bit be a problem, provided you planned for it in advance? Name all the large, long-term projects that you know of that *haven't* gotten bitten by something like this. Now, name all of the large, long-term projects

Re: [agi] Development Environments for AI (a few non-religious comments!)

2007-02-21 Thread Mark Waser
opportunities to focus even more on what matters instead of re-inventing some wheels. - Original Message - From: Ben Goertzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: agi@v2.listbox.com Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 6:34 PM Subject: **SPAM** Re: **SPAM** Re: [agi] Development Environments for AI (a few non

Re: [agi] Development Environments for AI (a few non-religious comments!)

2007-02-21 Thread Ricardo Barreira
Wow. You've floored me given that indexes are key to what enterprise DBs do well. What are the special requirements/functionalities of the indices that you believe that enterprise DBs are not *optimized* to handle? Is there any AGI project which uses so called enterprise DBs intensively? If

Re: **SPAM** Re: [agi] Development Environments for AI (a few non-religious comments!)

2007-02-21 Thread Mike Dougherty
On 2/21/07, Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The language thread has been reasonably abstruse already, but proposing doing AI by stored procedures in relational databases backed by ~10 ms access time devices... Hey, why not tapes? I think you could implement a reasonably competent Turing

Re: [agi] Development Environments for AI (a few non-religious comments!)

2007-02-21 Thread Russell Wallace
On 2/21/07, Mark Waser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: and I think that there are a whole bunch more of similar cases that add up and add up and add up. Did you have to write code to load and save from memory to disk (both for swapping and semi-permanent purposes)? Are you confident that you know

RE: [agi] Development Environments for AI (a few non-religious comments!)

2007-02-21 Thread Kevin
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 9:34 AM To: agi@v2.listbox.com Subject: Re: [agi] Development Environments for AI (a few non-religious comments!) On 2/21/07, Mark Waser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: and I think that there are a whole bunch more of similar cases that add up

Re: [agi] Development Environments for AI (a few non-religious comments!)

2007-02-21 Thread David Clark
. Optimization on DB's is done at a higher level than an index in any case. David Clark - Original Message - From: Mark Waser [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: agi@v2.listbox.com Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 6:59 AM Subject: Re: [agi] Development Environments for AI (a few non-religious comments

Re: [agi] Development Environments for AI (a few non-religious comments!)

2007-02-21 Thread David Clark
of data from disk, no AGI is going to be built using conventional computers any time soon. David Clark - Original Message - From: Mark Waser To: agi@v2.listbox.com Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 9:36 AM Subject: Re: [agi] Development Environments for AI (a few non-religious

Re: [agi] Development Environments for AI (a few non-religious comments!)

2007-02-21 Thread Mark Waser
@v2.listbox.com Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 2:04 PM Subject: **SPAM** Re: [agi] Development Environments for AI (a few non-religious comments!) On any given machine, indexing code quickly reaches it's maximum speed. Enterprise DB's are much slower because they have to be concerned

Re: [agi] Development Environments for AI (a few non-religious comments!)

2007-02-21 Thread Mark Waser
engine of a database server. - Original Message - From: David Clark To: agi@v2.listbox.com Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 2:27 PM Subject: **SPAM** Re: [agi] Development Environments for AI (a few non-religious comments!) Unless the database is built into the language

Re: [agi] Development Environments for AI (a few non-religious comments!)

2007-02-21 Thread David Clark
: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 12:36 PM Subject: Re: [agi] Development Environments for AI (a few non-religious comments!) Optimization on DB's is done at a higher level than an index in any case. And with that statement, you prove that you don't know what you're talking about

Re: [agi] Development Environments for AI (a few non-religious comments!)

2007-02-21 Thread Mark Waser
] To: agi@v2.listbox.com Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 12:36 PM Subject: Re: [agi] Development Environments for AI (a few non-religious comments!) Optimization on DB's is done at a higher level than an index in any case. And with that statement, you prove that you don't know what you're

Re: [agi] Development Environments for AI (a few non-religious comments!)

2007-02-21 Thread Ben Goertzel
] Development Environments for AI (a few non-religious comments!) Also, why would 32 - 64 bit be a problem, provided you planned for it in advance? Name all the large, long-term projects that you know of that *haven't* gotten bitten by something like this. Now, name all of the large, long

Re: [agi] Development Environments for AI (a few non-religious comments!)

2007-02-21 Thread Ben Goertzel
Clark mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *To:* agi@v2.listbox.com mailto:agi@v2.listbox.com *Sent:* Wednesday, February 21, 2007 2:27 PM *Subject:* **SPAM** Re: [agi] Development Environments for AI (a few non-religious comments!) Unless the database is built into the language then using

Re: [agi] Development Environments for AI (a few non-religious comments!)

2007-02-20 Thread Richard Loosemore
Chuck Esterbrook wrote: On 2/19/07, Richard Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wow, I leave off email for two days and a 55-message Religious War breaks out! ;-) I promise this is nothing to do with languages I do or do not like (i.e. it is non-religious...). As many people pointed out,

Re: [agi] Development Environments for AI (a few non-religious comments!)

2007-02-20 Thread Mark Waser
. . . . (and plugged all of their BOA, MOSES, etc. into it) . . . . - Original Message - From: Chuck Esterbrook [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: agi@v2.listbox.com Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 1:40 AM Subject: **SPAM** Re: [agi] Development Environments for AI (a few non-religious comments!) On 2/19

Re: [agi] Development Environments for AI (a few non-religious comments!)

2007-02-20 Thread Russell Wallace
On 2/20/07, Mark Waser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Realistically, you'll have an AGI before the environment is completed . . . . I think you slightly underestimate the difficulty of creating AGI ;) Personally, I'd start with a commercial extensible development environment and a

Re: **SPAM** Re: [agi] Development Environments for AI (a few non-religious comments!)

2007-02-20 Thread Mark Waser
on it there. - Original Message - From: Russell Wallace To: agi@v2.listbox.com Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 3:31 PM Subject: **SPAM** Re: [agi] Development Environments for AI (a few non-religious comments!) On 2/20/07, Mark Waser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Realistically, you'll have

Re: **SPAM** Re: [agi] Development Environments for AI (a few non-religious comments!)

2007-02-20 Thread Russell Wallace
On 2/20/07, Mark Waser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think that you grossly underestimate the magnitude of what is being proposed because the tag development environment has been attached to it.:-) *grin* No, I think it's a big project, at least the version I have in mind (on my to-do list

Re: [agi] Development Environments for AI (a few non-religious comments!)

2007-02-20 Thread Russell Wallace
On 2/20/07, Ben Goertzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Novamente works fine on 64-bit machines -- but it took nearly a man-month of work to 64-bit-ify the code, which was done back in 2004... I guess I stand corrected on that one! - This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email

Re: **SPAM** Re: [agi] Development Environments for AI (a few non-religious comments!)

2007-02-20 Thread Ben Goertzel
Also, why would 32 - 64 bit be a problem, provided you planned for it in advance? Name all the large, long-term projects that you know of that *haven't* gotten bitten by something like this. Now, name all of the large, long-term projects that you know of that HAVE gotten bitten repeatedly

Re: [agi] Development Environments for AI (a few non-religious comments!)

2007-02-20 Thread Chuck Esterbrook
On 2/20/07, Richard Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... It helps to remember that my target users are cognitive scientists who want to be able to stay in a high-level thought mode (fancy way of saying that my users ain't gonna be hackers). Now I see why it would be a dev env, both from the

[agi] Development Environments for AI (a few non-religious comments!)

2007-02-19 Thread Richard Loosemore
Wow, I leave off email for two days and a 55-message Religious War breaks out! ;-) I promise this is nothing to do with languages I do or do not like (i.e. it is non-religious...). As many people pointed out, programming language matters a good deal less that what you are going to use

Re: [agi] Development Environments for AI (a few non-religious comments!)

2007-02-19 Thread Anna Taylor
Richard Loosemore wrote: There is a restriction in my case that enables me to get away without having to solve the general problem. I am curious to know what that restriction is? Offlist would be welcomed. Thanks Anna:) On 2/19/07, Richard Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wow, I leave

Re: [agi] Development Environments for AI (a few non-religious comments!)

2007-02-19 Thread Chuck Esterbrook
On 2/19/07, Richard Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wow, I leave off email for two days and a 55-message Religious War breaks out! ;-) I promise this is nothing to do with languages I do or do not like (i.e. it is non-religious...). As many people pointed out, programming language matters