On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 8:34 AM Abdulrahman Semrie <[email protected]>
wrote:
>
> Anyways, I think implementing something similar to Nebula db as an initial
> version has immediate benefits for projects that use the atomspace to store
> and process out-of-RAM data such the genomic data.
>
Someone should do that. Oh wait! Someone already did! Like 10 years ago, we
had the Atomspace hooked up to BigTable or HyperTable or whatever it was
called, and what happened is that absolutely no one ever actually used it
for anything, because no one was writing any kind of atomspace algorithms
that actually needed this.
Pie-in-the-sky design is usually terrible. If you have actual, specific
technical problems, if you have trouble accomplishing some specific task,
that is when you talk, think, invent, write new code. Because
talking/thinking/writing requires energy, time, money. Creating something
no one wants is pointless, even if it sounds like a cool sci-fi book. (I
mean, I'm all for creating useless art, but let's call it Art, then, and
not pretend that it's as useful as a steam-shovel.)
(This was also why Corto failed -- the charts were awesome, pie-in-the-sky
stuff - but they failed to solve any actual problem that anyone actually
had. This is not uncommon.)
--linas
--
Verbogeny is one of the pleasurettes of a creatific thinkerizer.
--Peter da Silva
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