On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 6:29 AM, David Kirkby <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote: > On 12 March 2012 01:57, Tom Boothby <tomas.boot...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Dr. David Kirkby > >>> I take exception to what he said: >>> >>> "It'll probably be related to my goal in the next year or two of making >>> Mathematica definitively the world's easiest to learn language..." >> >> The man's got a respectable goal. What's to take exception to? > > I believe it is a totally unrealistic goal. > >> The >> goal may be unobtainable within our current view of what Mathematica >> is, but if you read the rest of the reddit discussion, he really seems >> to be pushing hard on the "alpha" paradigm, and natural language >> interaction. > > He has Wolfram|Alpha, and that takes natural language, but it has some > serious problems. I'm sure he can improve it, but personally I'm > convinced Mathematica will be the easyist language to learn. If you > mean will it be the easist to get a result, then perhaps it might be. > > As I noted before, there's a big difference between learning a > language properly, and being able to cobble something > together that does what you want it to do. > >> Two years ago, few would believe that a computer could win Jeopardy, >> much less against the best players in recent history. > > I'm not sure whta "Jeopardy" is in this context. > > I know nobody thought computers would beat humans at chess, but they > beat the top grandmasters on a regular basis. > > But in some ways chess is much easier, as a computer knows the rules, > and it bascially boils down to processing power. There is no ambiguity > in the input. But human speak is not so precise.
Um. Way to fail the Turing test. Here, why don't I google that for you? http://lmgtfy.com/?q=jeopardy > > Anyway, we shall see in a couple of years time if Wolfram was right, > but past experience tells me he exagerates. His book "NKS" was such an > example. He is undoubty a bright guy, but has an ego the size of the > moon. > > > dave > > -- > To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel > URL: http://www.sagemath.org -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
