On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 12:20 PM, Apil Tamang <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi All, > Reading this page: http://wiki.opencog.org/w/Getting_Started > > Great concise introduction. I like to believe that this is ALL there > really is to opencog, i,e the atoms, the atomspace, and mind-agents, and > that any/every-thing that manifests out of opencog in all its variants, is > the result of mind-agents interacting with the atomspace. The wiki also > does say: > > *There are two main types of atoms <http://wiki.opencog.org/w/Atom>, nodes >> <http://wiki.opencog.org/w/Node> and links >> <http://wiki.opencog.org/w/Link>, and atoms can have further sub-types, >> such as being directed .....* > > > *Question 1.* To be unequivocally clear, are atoms really ONLy of the two > types: i.e. Nodes and Links? Are all other atoms sub-type of one of these > former types? > Well, there is a third type, called "values" but these are incompletely implemented, and not ready for general use. > > There's another section that goes as follows: > > >> >> *Interacting with the AtomSpaceAll atoms referred to by Handles >> <http://wiki.opencog.org/w/Handle>.* >> >> - *TLB - converts handles into pointers to atoms and check validity >> of a handle.* >> >> All mention of handles and tlb's should be removed. > >> - *AtomSpace <http://wiki.opencog.org/w/AtomSpace> - API for >> interface to the hypergraph, getHandleSet methods, getType.* >> >> >> - *AtomTable <http://wiki.opencog.org/w/AtomTable> - an >> implementation of atom storage, several indexes to ensure fast lookup by >> type and importance. Shouldn't need to be accessed directly.* >> >> *Question 2.* What is TLB ? Is it some form of an opencog entity, or a > software artifact ? Could use some clarification here. > The TLB is a deprecated part of the internal architecture. It's in the process of being removed. --linas > > Thanks. Feel free to explain at any depth. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "opencog" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/opencog. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/opencog/0882cb4a-32cd-4317-a630-875383a83085%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/opencog/0882cb4a-32cd-4317-a630-875383a83085%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "opencog" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/opencog. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/opencog/CAHrUA35Oka%3DrQMtyNV0-S5dZ9q8SrkPkQE722BUv%3DheRNaY_yg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
