That link is worth expanding (Rudy Rucker interview, also quoted source of singularityhub piece): http://www.hplusmagazine.com/articles/ai/wolframalpha-searchin

That link is worth expanding (Rudy Rucker interview, also quoted source of singularityhub piece): http://www.hplusmagazine.com/articles/ai/wolframalpha-searching-truth http://www.hplusmagazine.com/articles/ai/wolframalpha-search... And in that page, the tail 'Resource' links include this: http://www.alamut.com/subj/artiface/language/johnWilkins.html http://www.alamut.com/subj/artiface/language/johnWilkins.htm... which is the Jorge Luis Borges essay with the amusing mention of a system of animal classification: "(a) belonging to the emperor, (b) embalmed, (c) tame ..." Borges lucidly nails the Achilles' heel - the definition of the database scheme. I stand by my less insightful comment of three weeks ago - care and feeding of 'fact databases' is hard (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=520281 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=520281)