Re: [opencog-dev] PartitionLink, biological pathways, human bodies, etc.

2017-09-19 Thread Michael Duncan
hi linus, finally getting back to this knowledge representation discussion. On Wednesday, August 30, 2017 at 7:25:07 AM UTC+8, linas wrote: > > Hi Mike, > > On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 7:29 PM, Michael Duncan > wrote: > >> thanks for the feedback, linus! i copied the form using DefineLink and >> An

[opencog-dev] Re: it would be nice if..

2017-09-19 Thread Michael Duncan
and to be fair i believe the build scripts have only been updated for ubuntu 16.04. if you point out where it says otherwise in the poorly updated docs i'll fix it. On Friday, September 15, 2017 at 11:03:02 AM UTC+8, Samantha Atkins wrote: > > It would be really nice if the project escaped from

Re: [opencog-dev] OpenCog mysteries revealed - 'code-as-data' programs as universal knowledge base?

2017-09-19 Thread Linas Vepstas
Hi Alex, one more note: On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 1:23 AM, Alex wrote: > > If OpenCog knowledge base (AtomSpace) is the big Scheme program then we > can consider also the self-modification of this program. > Yes. Let me try to be very clear about this: atomese is designed from the ground-up to be

Re: [opencog-dev] OpenCog mysteries revealed - 'code-as-data' programs as universal knowledge base?

2017-09-19 Thread Linas Vepstas
Hi Alex, Let me top-post reply to your email; it will be simpler that way. The part of opencog you are interested in is called "the atomspace" -- it already is a graph database; it is implemented in C++, and scheme is one of the languages that have an API to it. (there is also python and haskell

Re: [opencog-dev] OpenCog mysteries revealed - 'code-as-data' programs as universal knowledge base?

2017-09-19 Thread Matt Chapman
> If such represenation is possible then maybe it is possible to move OpenCog knowledge bases (as Scheme programs) to graph databases. I am suspicious about Neo4J, because it is commercial database, but Apache ArangoDB can be very good options, because it is open source and it known to be very scal

Re: [opencog-dev] OpenCog mysteries revealed - 'code-as-data' programs as universal knowledge base?

2017-09-19 Thread 'Nil Geisweiller' via opencog
On 09/19/2017 08:23 PM, Alex wrote: OpenCog uses Scheme as knowledge representation language (as I understand, then this is one from many options for interfacing with OpenCog). So - this is natural question - *how close are valid Scheme programms to the sentences of OpenCog knowledge? Are Ope

[opencog-dev] OpenCog mysteries revealed - 'code-as-data' programs as universal knowledge base?

2017-09-19 Thread Alex
I am back to OpenCog from my travels to the land of proof assistants (mainly Coq and Isabelle/HOL, I decided to stick with Coq as it is far more better documented and lambda-Pi-omega calculus is the most extensive formalism for which one can hope, besides there are pretty extensive formalizatio