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Date:	Sat, 2 Jun 2001 17:19:50 PDT
From:	driven zen <drivnzen@netfeed.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-sundialsig@scoug.com
To:	scoug-sundialsig@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-SundialSIG: June meeting

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"Lynn H. Maxson" wrote:
>
> Peter Skye wrote:
>
> "Nah. I never look at the data. I let the computer figure it
> out."
>
> Aside from the "nah-saying" which appears to be denying itself I
> need to find out from whom you buy your computers. If I could buy
> one that came complete with all my processing needs without any
> instruction on my part, I would go for it in a nanosecond.
>
> Let's be clear on this point otherwise we could be engaged in a
> conspiracy that asserts that machines can think, which under
> current von Neumann architecture and Turing processing rules they
> cannot, now or ever. That means they require "outside"
> instruction, i.e. incapable of "self-instruction". That means you
> or some number of others had to understand the data, its format,
> and the rules for processing it. Otherwise you couldn't use the
> computer.
>
> You may not regard storing individual streams in their entirety
> and separately in a directory as a "serious" decision, but I have
> this niggling notion that you were deliberate, i.e. serious, in
> doing so. I am hoping that you will seriously share with us your
> computer-assisted data mining methods. Perhaps we can even
> discuss the option of using text extenders of DB2 and the actual
> storage of the streams as individual columns in a row instead of a
> file and using a database table instead of a directory.
>
> As I seem to have not checked early and often with respect to a
> following, no responses other than yours, I can assume that I
> failed a lesson in leadership. One consolation is that it is a
> volunteer position. You certainly wouldn't want to pay me for
> non-performance. So at least we kept the cost within reason.

I'm listening and intended to respond to a couple of
recent assertions but haven't had time to do so. I'll
try to find time that I can reasonably use to do so.

> As you obviously do not operate under the Principle of Least
> Effort thank God you have Schroedingers Cat for company. I had
> hoped that others might be interested in how you structure data to
> obtain the most information in the least amount of time. But
> apparently they are all cat lovers as well. Actually I am too.
> That's why I have an interest in anything that allows me to spend
> more time with the cat.

Yes, I am a cat lover. "My" cat, Inchiostro (aka
"Inky") has been annoyed with me recently for not
spending more time with him. Also, it's Saturday,
time for me to bathe with our cockatiel. He's so
much mellower when he gets his weekly shower.

TPDHBWAITP (This Probably Doesn't Help. But, who
am I, the Pope?)

Mark
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