How do you know what I know
or don't from a few sentences in an email?
Huh? When people make a simple, clear, and blatantly incorrect
statement, don't you feel pretty sure that they don't know what they're
talking about?
If you wanted to retract or amend your statement that "Optimization on
DB's is done at a higher level than an index in any case", I might be
tempted to change my mind.
But blustering on about *off-topic* experience only diminishes your
credibility. Just because you have written database software and didn't do
optimization at the index level (very hard to believe), doesn't mean that
others haven't (unless you're claiming that you know everyone's software
inside out -- in which case, I'd just laugh at you since I do know some of
the people involved and do know that they do indeed do index level
optimization).
And pointing to a specific, blatantly incorrect statement and dismissing
it with half a sentence is hardly a flame . . . .
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 3:18 PM
Subject: **SPAM** Re: [agi] Development Environments for AI (a few
non-religious comments!)
You are a very ignorant person Mr Mark Waser. How do you know what I know
or don't from a few sentences in an email? Have you designed and
programmed
a commercial database programming language that sold over 30,000 copies
around the world? If you have points to make, then make them without the
flames!
David Clark
PS Would you call millions of records and hundreds of gigs of disk space
small? How about looking for a random string in 16,000 emails (over 100
meg
of emails) in 1 second. Slow?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Waser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
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
talking
about . . . . Optimization on commercial DBs is done at all levels and
anywhere possible.
- - - - -
And by the way, while I would believe that your indexes could be as fast
or
faster than any equivalent commercial DB software on small datastores, I
don't believe that they can scale up to the necessary sizes for AGI *and*
remain faster (or even close assuming that you could even handle the
scaling
up). There are always trade-offs. Enterprise DBs have accepted
unimportant
slowdowns at small scales to optimize for scaling to much larger sizes.
And
the kid on the bicycle can get down the street long before the airline
pilot
even starts the engines.
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