From: Tom Cloyd <tomcloyd@...>
Date: 2008-12-24T05:51:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Name that data structure!

Joel VanderWerf wrote:
> Tom Cloyd wrote:
>>
>> Ian Hobson wrote:
>>> Tom Cloyd wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I now can specify node relationships. Some examples:
>>>>
>>>> .n Tom .r is a .n poor programmer
>>>> .n apple r. is not .n bridge building material
>>>> .n e=mc**2 .r could be .n true
>>>>
>>>> Obviously, these aren't sentences, so we do not use articles, 
>>>> conjunctions, and the like.
>
> You may find concept analysis interesting, too:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_concept_analysis
>
Absolutely. I see in that article, right away, my sense of this thing's 
involving spare matrices. Also prominent is the notion of what we call 
in statistical factor analysis "latent structure". Lovely. This is 
really relevant stuff, both to data storage, retrieval and analysis and 
to the study of functional intelligence. Concept analysis appears to 
offer another perspective on this "associative" model I'm learning about 
and developing, and it may give me some additional ideas for what the 
sorts of functionality I will want my program to have.

Thanks very much!!!!

t.

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