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the difference in approach is outlined in the following paragraphs: "But what about all the actual knowledge that we as humans have accumulated? A lot of it is
by programnature 18y ago
the difference in approach is outlined in the following paragraphs:
"But what about all the actual knowledge that we as humans have accumulated?
A lot of it is now on the web—in billions of pages of text. And with search engines, we can very efficiently search for specific terms and phrases in that text.
But we can’t compute from that. And in effect, we can only answer questions that have been literally asked before. We can look things up, but we can’t figure anything new out.
So how can we deal with that? Well, some people have thought the way forward must be to somehow automatically understand the natural language that exists on the web. Perhaps getting the web semantically tagged to make that easier.
But armed with Mathematica and NKS I realized there’s another way: explicitly implement methods and models, as algorithms, and explicitly curate all data so that it is immediately computable."
(eg, the crucial formula is algorithms to compute further information from curated, trusted data)
- dschobel 18y agoso he scripted google and fed it all into a learning algorithm?
- programnature 18y agowhat is meant by curated data is the opposite of what google does, eg http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/guide/NewIn70ComputableData.html http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/guide/NewIn70Comput... (google has pretty much admitted it does a horrible job with structured information...)