Ben, Maybe your memory is correct --- we use "strength" in Webmind to keep some distance from NARS.
Anyway, I don't like that term because it can be easily interpreted in several ways, while the reason I don't like "probability" is just the opposite --- it has a widely accepted interpretation, which is hard to bend to mean what I want the term to mean. Pei On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 6:58 PM, Ben Goertzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 6:01 PM, Pei Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 5:52 PM, Ben Goertzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >> > I meant frequency, sorry >> > >> > "Strength" is a term Pei used for frequency in some old sicsussions... >> >> Another correction: "strength" is never used in any NARS publication. >> It was used in some Webmind documents, though I guess it must be your >> idea, since I never like this term. ;-) > > As I recall, the use of the term (in discussions rather than publications) > was your idea, *but* the context in which it was > suggested was as follows. We wanted a term for a variable in the Webmind > Java code that would be applicable to both NARS and PLN truth values, and > would be > burdened as little as possible with specific theoretical interpretation. So > you suggested strength. > > I'm not sure why we didn't just use "frequency" instead. I remember you did > not want to call it "probability." > > (This was, unbelievably, 10 years ago, so I don't want to bet my right arm > on the details of my recollection ... but that's how I remember it...) > >> >> > The exact formulas used in NARS are basically heuristics derived based >> > on "endpoint conditions", so replicating those exact formulas is really >> > not important IMO... the key would be replicating their qualitative >> > behavior... >> >> I have to say that I don't like the term "heuristics", neither, since >> it usually refers to "quick-and-dirty" replacement of the "real >> thing". > > I didn't mean anything negative via the word "heuristic" ... and you didn't > suggest > an alternative word ;-) > > > ben > > ________________________________ > agi | Archives | Modify Your Subscription ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=114414975-3c8e69 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
