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by ableal 6274 days ago
That link is worth expanding (Rudy Rucker interview, also quoted source of singularityhub piece): 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.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)