Last time I played at Hull KR, three players got hypothermia. Our coach wouldn't let us drink hot tea at half-time on the grounds it was likely to dull performance. That was at Craven Park - now they play at New Craven Park - very inventive. I suspect the ground is in Grimsby. Windchill off the North Sea caused most of us to suffer near death experiences. In those days we were tough enough to play in winter - today's fairies play in summer, unless the game is really still played at the same time of year and gloobal waming has already taken place. I believe, incidentally, that global warming is real, but not the debate about it. In this sense, google and wolfram alpha won't help us. Most people are as far from a worthwhile understanding of what the data mean as they are from understanding a derivative option - no algorithm can provide the understanding. In Britain we tend to believe global warming will let us grow grapes again and finally give up pretending we like beer. We will get comfortably wined and dined whilst most of the rest of the world dies, with things returning to normal in a couple of generations, except we will have no one to play cricket against until we repopulate the former colonies.
On 11 May, 14:04, bruce ralph <[email protected]> wrote: > Sunspots are supposedly inactive, when they should be approaching > maximum in their cycle. Could be the reason for the current cooling > trend in the northeast. Little ice age on the way???---as in the > 1700's. > > On May 11, 8:48 am, Molly Brogan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I think the global warming fear wave is a load of crap...where is that > > page? > > > On May 10, 9:01 pm, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > The Internet needs a better search engine. Otherwise one can end up > > > on Chris' monstrous denial of global warming site whilst seeking > > > tickets to a rugby league match between the elves and pixies. > > > > On 11 May, 01:52, Slip Disc <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > It's toooooo deeeeeep for meeeeee tooooonight, Molleeeeeeee > > > > sweeeeeeetness, > > > > > On May 10, 10:59 am, Molly Brogan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > Found this article that might be of interest > > > > > (http://mechape.blogspot.com/ > > > > > ): > > > > > > I'm eagerly waiting to see what kind of surprise is brewing under the > > > > > guise of "computational knowledge engine" called Wolfram Alpha > > > > > announced by Steven Wolfram in March and settled to debut in May. > > > > > Steven Wolfram was widely credited for his Mathematica software > > > > > package and equally criticized for the book "A New Kind of > > > > > Science” ,abbreviated NKS , explained his new creation : > > > > > > I had two crucial ingredients: Mathematica and NKS. With > > > > > Mathematica, I had a symbolic language to represent anything—as well > > > > > as the algorithmic power to do any kind of computation. And with NKS, > > > > > I had a paradigm for understanding how all sorts of complexity could > > > > > arise from simple rules. > > > > > > But what about all the actual knowledge that we as humans have > > > > > accumulated? > > > > > > A lot of it is now on the web—in billions of pages of text. And > > > > > with search engines, we can very efficiently search for specific terms > > > > > and phrases in that text. > > > > > But we can’t compute from that. And in effect, we can only answer > > > > > questions that have been literally asked before. We can look things > > > > > up, but we can’t figure anything new out > > > > > > While many dubbed it like a potential Google killer I don't expect > > > > > from Wolfram|Alpha to be used in mass on the Google scale. Essentially > > > > > it is not a general searching tool, but is meant to become a tool for > > > > > "truth discovery". But the truth is that most people are not looking > > > > > for computable "truth discovery", they are sufficed with finding the > > > > > facts and then using their own brains to accomodate that data to build > > > > > their own knowledge base. > > > > > I won't be as cynical as Ted Dziuba who wrote : > > > > > "That sounds an awful lot like the marriage of some Python scripts > > > > > with a few hundred bucks spent hiring third world workers through > > > > > Amazon Mechanical Turk.". > > > > > > (A blog for the WA was launchedhttp://blog.wolframalpha.com/) > > > > > > Speaking of search engines and our latest global fever i tried Cuil > > > > > (almost forgotten another Google-killer) to search for "swine flu" and > > > > > i was kinda surprised. On the first page i found link pointing to one > > > > > very good article describing 1976 swine flu case. And another link > > > > > about recombination of birds and pigs flu virus genes, which dates > > > > > from 2007, not exactly the last news as you might wrongly infer from > > > > > the current media frenzy. If you had already encyclopedic info which > > > > > you can find in Wikipedia those additional pieces are good hits and > > > > > they are not easily found with general purpose search engines. What > > > > > this is good for explaining knowledge ? When you have initial base you > > > > > need the tools for finding more deep knowledge. And this is exactly > > > > > what is lacking both in Wolfram Alpha project and even upcoming > > > > > semantic web with all their ontologies. We don't have formal > > > > > understanding what is "deep knowledge" which could also be adjusted > > > > > according to the users needs. > > > > > > I think this reflects another leap in technology as extension of > > > > > self. What do YOU think?- Hide quoted text - > > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Minds-Eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
