On 04/25/2018 09:21 PM, Linas Vepstas wrote:
Writing private emails to me and Nil is just counter-productive. The conversation needs to be carried out either on the mailing list, or in github, or both.
I totally agree. I did recommend to make discussions public, though perhaps I did not insist enough (using formulas like "do not hesitate" instead of "you really should").
I am also concerned about the priority of the work. https://github.com/opencog/atomspace/labels/pattern-matcher <https://github.com/opencog/atomspace/labels/pattern-matcher> lists twenty issues that exist in the current pattern matcher. Its not at all obvious that parallelizing the pattern matcher is all that important or urgent. I am guessing that Ben put you up to this. Some advance
I was asked some motivational task to get Vitaly started and this popped up in my head. Vitaly has a strong background on System/Network programming so I thought it was a good match.
In my opinion it's OK if it's not the highest priority (though I think it's really cool to have) since it is getting Vitaly familiar with some very important part of OpenCog.
planning and organization would have been maybe a bit better.
Yep, I should have been more aggressive on the public thing. I tend not to like to push people too much, it makes me feel I'm coercing them, but I think I was out of balance on that one.
to parallelize the stack; you'll never get it to work right. The parallelization MUST happen in the initiate-search loops, and not somewhere else.
Just to be clear, that is precisely what Vitaly is doing, parallelizing the initiate-search loops.
Also, totally agree on splitting large PRs into small chunks of cohesive PRs.
Vitaly, that would mean for instance that this commit https://github.com/vsbogd/atomspace/commit/6c2ab67d026116cebf6d2b388f022ef898e854f6 of your branch https://github.com/vsbogd/atomspace/commits/parallel-pattern-matcher should go into another branch, and could probably be pushed ASAP. Nil -- 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/80208ac2-6c0e-f08b-0cf3-ae08c5605546%40gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
