On 12/12/07, James Ratcliff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This would allow a large amount of knowledge to be extracted in a > distributed manner, keeping track of the quality of information gathered > from each person as a trust metric, and many facts would be gathered and > checked for truth.
> Something along the lines of a higher quality Yahoo Questions, with an > active component, and central knowledge base. > I think the knowledge base is one of the most important pieces of these, and > hope to start seeing some more of ppls ideas and implementations of KR db's. I believe where you said "central knowledge base" you mean "distributed KB" - right? The idea of keeping local KB at each node shares the burden for storage/bandwidth to every node in the network. Your trust metrics are how nodes conditionally connect for per-topic fact-checking. I have already volunteered my free CPU/bandwidth to a prototype of this model. Of course, I'd like to be a collaborator of mechanisms involved in addition to a user of the grid. Even if it starts out only a toy or hobby, it would still teach us a great deal. ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=75442948-fd876c
