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The Holon Project: Turning 52 books into computer code

Causality1 7y ago
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- yorwba 7y ago
  > track the sun and calculate angle of reflection to hit a target I didn't see anything about that in TFA, did you mean to comment on a different submission? EDIT: I guess it's this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21955247 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21955247
  - Causality1 7y ago
    You're right. I must've mis-clicked.
airesearcher 7y ago
What is the target knowledge representation that you expect to produce here? Are you suggesting the neural nets will output formal knowledge represented according to an ontology? This is very vague.
- Y_Y 7y ago
  I think the answer is "it doesn't matter" because it will never happen. This guy has set himself an absurdly ambitious, poorly defined task.
vasergen 7y ago
just wanted to say that like button doesn't work
shireboy 7y ago
Trying to understand how you “compile a book to JavaScript”. Just write code based on the examples or what? Oh well, you got a subscribe so I can finds out...
herohamp 7y ago
I honestly have no idea what this means
gugagore 7y ago
I don't know what this project means at all. But if you're interested in projects that formalize the knowledge encoded in stories, check out http://groups.csail.mit.edu/genesis/index.html http://groups.csail.mit.edu/genesis/index.html Professor Winston isn't alive to drive the project, fyi, and I don't know what other similar projects there are.
unignorant 7y ago
For anyone interested in this topic, during my PhD I mined fiction to build models that could predict patterns in human behavior: https://hci.stanford.edu/publications/2016/ethan/augur-chi-2016.pdf https://hci.stanford.edu/publications/2016/ethan/augur-chi-2...
coding123 7y ago
1 book a week is kinda crazy. So something should be coming in a few days?
jteppinette 7y ago
this is the intro plot to a bad 90's movie about how an evil programmer amassed enough wealth to take over the world
haecceity 7y ago
While the original post makes no sense there are some interesting articles in the comments which I find mildly amusing.
inimino 7y ago
Strange that the author starts with a book that began as an online, runnable, interactive book. (Taking a lot more than a week to write.) Presumably he would end up with a library of functions that somehow capture some of the mathematical models found in some books. Without any of the understanding of what they mean or how to apply them, this is meaningless. If you really want to do something meaningful and ambitious, spend a year trying to write a program that can understand a single sentence.

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yorwba 7y ago
> track the sun and calculate angle of reflection to hit a target I didn't see anything about that in TFA, did you mean to comment on a different submission? EDIT: I guess it's this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21955247 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21955247
- Causality1 7y ago
  You're right. I must've mis-clicked.

What is the target knowledge representation that you expect to produce here? Are you suggesting the neural nets will output formal knowledge represented according to an ontology? This is very vague.

Y_Y 7y ago
I think the answer is "it doesn't matter" because it will never happen. This guy has set himself an absurdly ambitious, poorly defined task.

vasergen 7y ago

just wanted to say that like button doesn't work

shireboy 7y ago

Trying to understand how you “compile a book to JavaScript”. Just write code based on the examples or what? Oh well, you got a subscribe so I can finds out...

herohamp 7y ago

I honestly have no idea what this means

gugagore 7y ago

I don't know what this project means at all. But if you're interested in projects that formalize the knowledge encoded in stories, check out http://groups.csail.mit.edu/genesis/index.html http://groups.csail.mit.edu/genesis/index.html Professor Winston isn't alive to drive the project, fyi, and I don't know what other similar projects there are.

unignorant 7y ago

For anyone interested in this topic, during my PhD I mined fiction to build models that could predict patterns in human behavior: https://hci.stanford.edu/publications/2016/ethan/augur-chi-2016.pdf https://hci.stanford.edu/publications/2016/ethan/augur-chi-2...

coding123 7y ago

1 book a week is kinda crazy. So something should be coming in a few days?

jteppinette 7y ago

this is the intro plot to a bad 90's movie about how an evil programmer amassed enough wealth to take over the world

haecceity 7y ago

While the original post makes no sense there are some interesting articles in the comments which I find mildly amusing.

inimino 7y ago

Strange that the author starts with a book that began as an online, runnable, interactive book. (Taking a lot more than a week to write.) Presumably he would end up with a library of functions that somehow capture some of the mathematical models found in some books. Without any of the understanding of what they mean or how to apply them, this is meaningless. If you really want to do something meaningful and ambitious, spend a year trying to write a program that can understand a single sentence.