Hi David
This is an interesting slant on a 50+ year old paramount problem (and one that
is even more important today).
Licklider called it the communicating with aliens problem. He said 50 years
ago this month that if we succeed in constructing the 'intergalactic network'
then our main
Does anyone have a fast API for getting/putting the nth line of a file?
This would replace a relational way of storing strings, caching is
acceptable. C++ is preferred.
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Hi Alan,
Your metaphor brought up a connection that I have been thinking about for a
while, but I unfortunately don't have enough breadth of knowledge to know
if the connection is worthwhile or not, so I am throwing it out there to
this list to see what people think.
If figuring out module
The basic idea is to find really fundamental questions about negotiating about
meaning, and to invent mental and computer tools to help.
David is quite right to complain about the current state of things in this area
-- but -- for example -- I don't know of anyone trying a discovery system
Well, communicating with genuine aliens would probably best be solved by
multi-modal machine-learning techniques. The ML community already has
techniques for two machines to teach one another their vocabularies, and
thus build a strong correspondence. Of course, if we have space alien
visitors,
Hi David
We are being invaded by stupid aliens aka our's and other people's software.
The gods who made their spaceships are on vacation and didn't care about
intercommunication (is this a modern version of the Tower of Babel?).
Discovery can take a long time (and probably should) but might
Alan Kay alan.n...@yahoo.com writes:
Hi David
This is an interesting slant on a 50+ year old paramount problem (and
one that is even more important today).
Licklider called it the communicating with aliens problem. He said
50 years ago this month that if we succeed in constructing the
