Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!usc!apple!amdahl!JUTS!kpc00 From: kpc00@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com (kpc) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: Re: How many knowledge chunks make up an expert Message-ID: Date: 2 Dec 90 05:45:21 GMT References: <2242@dsac.dla.mil> <1990Nov28.134802.3789@sparrms.ists.ca> Sender: kpc00@ccc.amdahl.com Organization: my-organization Lines: 29 In-reply-to: mb@sparrms.ists.ca's message of 28 Nov 90 13:48:02 GMT In article <1990Nov28.134802.3789@sparrms.ists.ca> mb@sparrms.ists.ca (Mike Bell) writes: I believe that it is the same number as the number of angels that can balance on the head of a pin. FYI: As I heard it, this was a serious question, and had to do with something approximately like whether angels had finite size or not. Now if modern science can answer this simple medievil problem... I think that Doug Lenat has tried, for the original problem. At least (I think he says) you can estimate how much information a human learns by multiplying the amount that he tends to learn per unit time over the time he lives. You need to make some assumptions, but the idea is to get a ballpark estimate of at least an upper limit. I am not saying that this is the bes way to go about it, but it is at least one approach. (I think that there is a lot riding on what a fact really is.) -- If you do not receive a reply from me, please resend your mail; occasionally this site's mail gets delayed. Engineering is a creative act. It is currently a blue-collar job. Neither representing any company nor, necessarily, myself. Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com