Yeah, I mean, converting ENF to DNF is "conceptually easy", and "doing it
yourself" by writing some code to do it is surely easier/faster than
finding and reading about and trying to understand some package that does
it for you!?  That's the time trade-off: do it yourself, vs use external
package.   --linas

On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 8:35 AM, Ben Goertzel <[email protected]> wrote:

> In general, turning off ENF will fuck up learning... though in some
> cases it might not
>
> what you want to do for biology is not turn off ENF for learning, but
> rather convert the ENF to DNF afterwards for analysis
>
> There are lots of existing code libraries for converting arbitrary
> Boolean expressions to DNF, e.g.
>
> https://github.com/bpodgursky/jbool_expressions
>
> or probably some R code somewhere...
>
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 6:08 PM, 'Nil Geisweiller' via opencog
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On 11/17/2017 04:19 PM, Michael Duncan wrote:
> >>
> >> thanks, nil!  i might try to implement something for the URE.  if ENF is
> >> disabled in MOSES, how would that affect performance?
> >
> >
> > It depends on the problem.
> >
> > The thing is, if DNF is enabled, then there is little learning required
> > because an optimal, though gigantic, DNF can be inferred from the data,
> then
> > learning consists of pruning this giant DNF to reach an adequate
> trade-off
> > between fitness of data and simplicity.
> >
> > Nil
> >
> >>
> >> On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 4:50 PM, Nil Geisweiller <
> [email protected]
> >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> >>
> >>     Hi Mike,
> >>
> >>     I'm not aware of any code doing that on the AtomSpace's end.
> >>
> >>     Yidnekachew Wondimu is developing a URE-base reduct engine may
> >>     ultimately be able to do that sort of things, but it might take a
> >>     while before it's ready.
> >>
> >>     Alternatively, I think there's a way you could tweak MOSES to output
> >>     models in DNF, by disabling ENF reduction and enabling some
> >>     experimental flags. I have forgotten the details of that but, if
> >>     that seems worthwhile to you, I can dig that up.
> >>
> >>     Nil
> >>
> >>     On 11/17/2017 03:03 PM, Michael Duncan wrote:
> >>
> >>         i want to convert moses models from elegant normal form to
> >>         disjunctive normal form to get a set of conjunctions whose
> >>         features can then be used for inference against background
> >>         knowledge.
> >>         for instance, if a model is converted to DNF and has the clause:
> >>
> >>         (and geneV ~geneW geneX ~geneY ~geneZ)
> >>
> >>         then maybe a pathway with geneV and geneX is active in the case
> >>         vs the control phenotype,
> >>         or a pathway with geneW, geneY, and geneZ is active the control
> >>         vs case phenotype.
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