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January 18, 2004

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David Locke

Try to see expression not as input, but as the presentation (View) created by a generative grammar (Renderer) on an assertion-based model.

This is the way CGI works. The decomposition to input approach is why machine translation fails.

Piers Young

The big question for me, perhaps too big (!), is the where you draw the line between expression and computation.

As languages become more expressive, they become harder to formalise, and so harder to gain any computational tractability from. But expressive languages are what we do.

Without knowing where that line is, when we're growing these knowledge system, we'll have no idea when to plant and when to prune. And I really don't want agents all over the lawn.

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