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>From: markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark William Hopkins)
Subject: Intelligence=retrieval, learning=storage, memory=lookup table (was: Re: lookup tables)
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In article <1992Jan19.161555.2440@arizona.edu> bill@NSMA.AriZonA.EdU (Bill Skaggs) writes:
>So how would you actually construct one of these mongo
>lookup tables (assuming you had the memory to store it)?

By squeezing out all of its redundancy.

Obviously there EXIST such compression techniques.  I know English, after all.
But then, good enough compression is itself tantamount to intelligence,

So we discover once and for all the word is actually an adverb, not a noun!
One accesses information intelligently, intelligence is defined by how
intelligently one access information.  Stupid programs are called stupid
because they take so long to access the information they need (to make a move
or solve a problem or whatever).  People too, I guess.

It's all in the retrieval process.

The question you should be asking is: how does one STORE such a table in the
first place.  Now storing information, that's what learning is.  That's another
story...


