[TheDonut]

Thanks for the reply. A 10% improvement in anything is usually immensely valuable but I know that you're using an arbitrary number in that 10%. I think the trick would be to make Cyc less complicated. It sounds like Cyc would do best sitting inside of a university or a foundation where they wouldn't have to worry about corporate clients. Or inside a massive tech company like Google where its budget would just be a drop in the bucket.

[catpolice]

All the programmers at Cycorp, and most of the ones who've gone on to do other things, have a dream of re-writing the inference engine from scratch. Its just that those dreams don't necessarily align in the details, and the codebase is so, so, so big at this point that it's a herculean undertaking.