Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 07:25:20 -0700
Mr. Rod Welch
rowelch@attglobal.net
The Welch Company
440 Davis Court #1602
San Francisco, CA 94111 2496
| Subject: | Questions about SDS, OHS |
Many thanks, Rod.
Let me update one important point: I'm NOT doing an OHS project at sourceforge. It's called Nexist -- used to be called jpOHS, but any use of the acronym OHS is to be avoided until OHS itself is constructed, and that will be under the guidance of Douglas Engelbart one way or another. Nexist is an engineering prototype platform intended to test various approaches to the design and implementation of OHS/DKR-like projects. Perhaps some of the code in Nexist will find its way into an OHS, but that's for the future. The major Nexist homepage is presently at....
....with links to my own development site at....
....(and that home page might move one of these days; the sourceforge address should always remain).
Any OHS that eventually appears will be, at once, the product of an evolutionary design process, and capable of evolving continuously as its users, environment, and so forth, themselves, evolve. This is called co-evolution. Doug likes to refer to it as "facilitated evolution" because, unlike pure Darwinian evolution, there are, indeed, guiding hands at work. Biologists have been using the term "directed evolution" for some time now when they construct molecules for medicinal purposes and play a role in selection of those molecules that do best during testing.
I personally like to think that we will someday figure out a way to combine many different technologies, including mathematico/probabalistic like Bayesian, Single Value Decomposition (Latent Semantic Indexing), and so forth, connectionists algorithms, and GOFAI (good old fashion AI), among others. This thinking envisions a means by which these various technologies offer "opinions" which that human-in-the-loop uses to perform daily functions. These opinions, coupled with enhanced memory capability as evidenced in the SDS records, are the means by which the human performance is enhanced.
Cheers
Jack