The Holon Project: Turning 52 books into computer code

What is the target knowledge representation that you expect to produce here? Are you suggesting the neural nets will output formal knowledge represented according to an ontology? This is very vague.

Re: The Holon Project: Turning 52 books into computer code

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Post by vasergen » Sat, Jan 04, 2020, 4:35 PM UTC

just wanted to say that like button doesn't work

Re: The Holon Project: Turning 52 books into computer code

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Post by shireboy » Sat, Jan 04, 2020, 4:39 PM UTC

Trying to understand how you “compile a book to JavaScript”. Just write code based on the examples or what? Oh well, you got a subscribe so I can finds out...

Re: The Holon Project: Turning 52 books into computer code

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Post by Causality1 » Sat, Jan 04, 2020, 5:15 PM UTC

yorwba wrote: post #3

Causality1 wrote: post #2

Edited for incorrect post.

> track the sun and calculate angle of reflection to hit a target I didn't see anything about that in TFA, did you mean to comment on a different submission? EDIT: I guess it's this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21955247

You're right. I must've mis-clicked.

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Post by herohamp » Sat, Jan 04, 2020, 5:20 PM UTC

I honestly have no idea what this means

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Post by Y_Y » Sat, Jan 04, 2020, 5:22 PM UTC

airesearcher wrote: post #4

What is the target knowledge representation that you expect to produce here? Are you suggesting the neural nets will output formal knowledge represented according to an ontology? This is very vague.

I think the answer is "it doesn't matter" because it will never happen. This guy has set himself an absurdly ambitious, poorly defined task.

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Post by gugagore » Sat, Jan 04, 2020, 5:29 PM UTC

I don't know what this project means at all. But if you're interested in projects that formalize the knowledge encoded in stories, check out http://groups.csail.mit.edu/genesis/index.html

Professor Winston isn't alive to drive the project, fyi, and I don't know what other similar projects there are.