On 9/29/07, Mike Dougherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ok sure, by what unit are you measuring? :)
Bytes. He's talking about compression of a gigabyte text file. So I
agree he can measure to 9 significant digits, I just don't think what
he's measuring is intelligence :)
Though I retract my earl
On 9/28/07, Matt Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Not necessarily. In my work I measure intelligence to 9 significant digits.
Ok sure, by what unit are you measuring? :)
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--- Robert Wensman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Maybe there is hope if computer scientists tries to be a little bit less
> like mathematicians, and dares to let in a little bit of the psychological
> vagueness in their paper writing jargon. By that I do not mean to encourage
> any kind of Freud-lik
It looks more like chicken and the egg problem. There should be some
kind of internal tension to assert that culture restrains some kinds
of research methodologies: it might be that what we see in the field
is exactly what field wants to produce.
Mathematics tends to be detached from reality, and
About why it is difficult to create complex system that balances several
functions, as opposed to a system with just one single function (assuming
that the former would be important for AGI): To find a reason for this
difficulty, I would like to point in a different direction, namely at the
scient