From: Dave Zachariah (davez@kth.se)
Date: Sat Apr 05 2008 - 17:55:29 EDT
Thanks for the reference Paul. I'll pick up his book. //Dave Z on 2008-04-05 21:12 Paul Cockshott wrote: > I attended a very interesting seminar by Dominic Widdows on Geometry and > Meaning on Friday. > > He is an Aristotelean and Euclidean whose Phd was in Differential > Geometry. > > > He is a Google researcher and is working on similar things to Keith van > Rijksbergen here, but he was an extraordinarily erudite scholar, and is > attempting to found a system of meaning using high dimensional vector > spaces - roughly Hilbert spaces. Very interesting work as an > alternative to the sort of models for semantics that we are used to > discussing in computer science. Since the maths he uses is very similar > to the maths I use for modelling financial transactions I found it > particularly interesting. > > He is great at relating these current questions that are arising in a > practical way in computing to the ideas of logic and dialectic that > Aristotle had 2400 years ago. > > His book is called Geometry and Meaning. > > The book is well written - in the sort of style or level that Goedel > Escher Bach was. Very interesting read the first few chapters. > > _______________________________________________ > ope mailing list > ope@lists.csuchico.edu > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/ope > _______________________________________________ ope mailing list ope@lists.csuchico.edu https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/ope
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