John, (01)
Thank you for references, but I still fail to see any possible connection
between Wolfram's prior work and his new search engine
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>http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.06/wolfram_pr.html
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>In any case, Mathematica works, and I believe that it is
>sufficient to support something like the the claims made
>for Wolfram Alpha. That is independent of the NKS book. (02)
It may be sufficient for some venture capitalist, but not for a person who
spend his life thinking about capturing and sharing knowledge with computers.
Despite all grandiosity of Wolfram's endevoure, it has a clear conceptual
framework based on CA. The claims for what can be explain and simulated with it
are new (and still controversial), but not its main premise - that complex
behavior can be explained by simple rules. So if we apply that main premise to
knowledge capturing and search, then some simple scale-free structure must put
to work for this task. Any guesses what it may be? I wonder why not just tell
us what it is. Is Wolfram afraid that we can't understand until we see? (03)
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