Ben, Thanks for the info.
If you knew of anything relatively simple that was on-line that would be preferred. But, if not, I guess I could try to Google for something myself. (Of if I wait long enough there probably will be a simple Wikipedia explanation.) Ed Porter -----Original Message----- From: Ben Goertzel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2008 9:13 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [agi] would anyone want to use a commonsense KB? Hi, There is no good overview of SMT so far as I know, just some technical papers... but SAT solvers are not that deep and are well reviewed in this book... http://www.sls-book.net/ -- Ben On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 4:38 PM, Ed Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ben or anyone, > > Do you know of an explanation or reference that is a for Dummies explanation > of how SAT (or SMT) handles computations in spaces with and 100,000 > variables and/or 10^300 states in practically computable time. > > I assume it is by focusing only on that part of the space through which > relevant and/or relatively short inferences paths pass, or something like > that. > > Ed Porter > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ben Goertzel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 5:54 PM > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [agi] would anyone want to use a commonsense KB? > > > > > And I seriously doubt that a general SMT solver + > > prob. theory is going to beat a custom probabilistic logic solver. > > My feeling is that an SMT solver plus appropriate subsets of prob theory > can be a very powerful component of a general probabilistic inference > framework... > > I can back this up with some details but that would get too thorny > for this list... > > ben > > > ------------------------------------------- > agi > Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now > RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ > Modify Your Subscription: > http://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > > > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com > > ------------------------------------------- > agi > Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now > RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ > Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com > -- Ben Goertzel, PhD CEO, Novamente LLC and Biomind LLC Director of Research, SIAI [EMAIL PROTECTED] "If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms." -- Henry Miller ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?&; Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=95818715-a78a9b Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
