On 9/29/07, Mike Dougherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok sure, by what unit are you measuring? :)
Bytes. He's talking about compression of a gigabyte text file. So I agree he can measure to 9 significant digits, I just don't think what he's measuring is intelligence :) Though I retract my earlier view that text compression has no relevance whatsoever to AI, because Matt did make one remark a little while ago that I found interesting: the best compressers want to use memory 3-4 orders of magnitude larger than the data file. This constitutes actual evidence to back the intuition that solutions to open-ended problems involve secondary/tertiary data much larger than the primary data, and helps explain the gap between the human brain's explicit memorization capacity (~1e9 bytes) and synaptic data capacity (~1e15 bytes). ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=48042214-d8e4f7
