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I believe Maciej is saying that it's not just an issue with RDF or a technical problem really. He says: "Personally, I think finding an adequate data model for
by britta 15y ago
I believe Maciej is saying that it's not just an issue with RDF or a technical problem really. He says: "Personally, I think finding an adequate data model for the totality of interpersonal connections is an AI-hard problem. But even if you disagree, it's clear that a plain old graph is not going to cut it."
- synae 15y agoThat depends on your definition of a "plain old graph". If you allow arbitrary numbers of edges between nodes and allow edges to carry data, everything will be ok, right? (...right?)
- jerf 15y agoIn math... and we're talking math if we're talking RDF & graphs, right?... "arbitrary" is perilously close to a synonym for "infinite" and "unbounded".
- rgbrgb 15y agoWell, are relationships finite-dimensional?
- bigiain 15y agoThat's true, but "infinite" and "unbounded" often also mean "there's no exact or precise solution, but at least for certain circumstances there's a useful approximation that works". I can calculate pi to "enough" precision, whether I'm making a hula hoop, or a piston ring, or sending a probe to Saturn - I suspect a lot of what I'd like out of a functional "social graph" probably doesn't need much more precision than "three and a bit", 3.1416+-0.0004, or 3.14159265+-0.000000005.