Rob, Rick, Paola, and Pat, (01)
Thanks for that reference: (02)
RF> Have you heard of the "Hutter Prize" for the compression
> of text by human knowledge? (03)
I hadn't heard of it, but the current record of an 8 to 1
compression of English text makes the point that English
is very far from being random. I also like Hutter's ideas
for adapting continuous math of various kinds from physics
to natural languages and AI in general. As I said before,
I believe that is a very important area for future R & D. (04)
RM> Actually, the web is neither random or chaotic.... (05)
Thanks for those references. That adds further support
for the points that some creative mathematics can do
a lot to extract valuable information from the WWW. (06)
PDM> oh, how I wish I hadnt replied :-) (07)
Don't apologize. Your remarks are well taken. (08)
PH> I wouldn't say that the Web is chaotic in any informal sense
> of the word, either. Messy, it may well be. Fortunately,
> 'messy' hasn't yet got a technical meaning. (09)
That's as good a word as any -- and better than most. The term
that I used for the mess of what people have in their heads is
'knowledge soup'. It's extremely fluid, but it has little chunks
of organization bobbing around, like a carrot or morsel of meat. (010)
Another term is 'complex system'. That has become a technical term,
but it is appropriate in both the technical and informal senses: (011)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_system
Complex System (012)
John (013)
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