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Date:	Sat, 2 Jun 2001 06:51:30 PDT
From:	"Lynn H. Maxson" <lmaxson@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-sundialsig@scoug.com
To:	< "scoug-sundialsig@scoug.com" > scoug-sundialsig@scoug.com >
Subject:	SCOUG-SundialSIG: June meeting

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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.

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.

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