[Sigia-l] "Gait code"

[Skot Nelson]

On Oct-17-2005, at 4:48 PM, Alexander Johannesen wrote:

> John <John.Trenouth at cardinal.com> wrote:
>
>> Analysis is sort of like Schrödinger's cat, and beyond the  
>> capacities of
>> any piece of software.
>>
>
> Nope, I think you're quite wrong in this; analysis software is today
> more powerful than ever, capable of doing quite sophisticated things.

I had emailed John off list to suggest that "any CURRENT software"  
would be more applicable.

It is true, that as the ability to rapidly analyze ever larger data  
sets to reach conclusions comes to fruition, many activities  
currently performed by computers could be perceived as "analysis"  
rather than simple data matching.

There is the larger point of discussion of whether or not a machine  
activity is akin to the activity of the human brain, but that's more  
of a philosophical issue and this is more of a practical venue.
--
Scott Nelson
skot at penguinstorm.com
http://www.penguinstorm.com/