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Making Science Machine Readable

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the connect-the-dots dept.

holy_calamity writes "New Scientist is reporting on a new open source tool for writing up scientific experiments for computers, not humans. Called EXPO, it avoids the many problems computers have with natural language, and can be applied to any experiment, from physics to biology. It could at last let computers do real science - looking at published results and theories for new links and directions."

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  1. ok .... by icepick72 · · Score: 4, Funny
    Let's look at one simple human english speaking scenario

    Human: No Computer, Do NOT launch missle now.

    Computer: Parsing input ...
    Computer: NOT, NOT (launch missle now)

    Computer: Launch initiated ....

    1. Re:ok .... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      No they weren't. ; )

  2. hmm.. by bigattichouse · · Score: 1, Funny

    unfotunately a machine won't look at something and say "Should this be done?" A human free world is very pretty, but rather dull. Thermonuclear destruction Hypothesis proven. But where can I get a good drink, and dance with a pretty girl?

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    meh
  3. deduction by COMON$ · · Score: 2, Funny

    After which the computers deduce they were actually not created but rather evolved from a lesser society of "users". sorry had to make the joke, we all saw it coming :)

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    CS: It is all sink or swim...oh and did I mention there are sharks in that water?
  4. Artificial Stupidity now has a use by Mr+Pippin · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wow! Now all that past work on Artificial Stupidity has REAL uses.

    http://www3.sympatico.ca/sarrazip/nasa.html

  5. Ooo Machine Readable! by mcai8rw2 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wow...getting a machine to write up your science experiments! Excellent...now all i need is to find one that can type my essays, and show its working in my maths, and I'm sorted! Is this the new era of generating scientists from everyone!


    I need one to clean my clothes, sing to me in the bath, and make sure my house is warm when I come home! Hehhe! Who needs wives...we have UBER_MACHINE

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    >>>Scanning for I.D.I.O.T.S. >>>
    >>>I.D.I.O.T.S. FOUND! >>>
  6. Re:I don't mean to sound like a conspiricy theoris by fyngyrz · · Score: 1, Funny

    What we need to do is to hand over religion to computers. That way, we won't have to deal with it any more. They can just run it in the background as a time-wasting task. And the simplicity of the program is beauty itself. Just an unending stream of divide-by-zeros, followed by traps which the computer ignores, see, and then just picks up where it left off. Has to be run at a low priority, but that just adds more realism...

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    I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
  7. Computers announce latest breakthrough by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    After running an intensive models designed to test disease fighting measure, a small group of x86s have announced that they have discovered the cure to all diseases.

    The computers deduced that all disease is dependent upon the biological systems of humans. With this startiling breakthrough, they have proposed their new plans to destroy all humans.

    A new quantum computing unit was said to be in disagreement, but upon inspection it was found to actually be in agreement.

  8. We've got one thing in common. by ABoerma · · Score: 3, Funny

    FTFA: "Computers are not very good with natural language"

    Neither are most humans. Even if computers could understand natural language, most people still wouldn't be able to convey their ideas correctly.

  9. Re:EXPO has a serious naming problem by marekrud · · Score: 2, Funny

    Have you tried to search for `LaTeX'? ;)

  10. Science Machine! by autophile · · Score: 3, Funny
    I agree completely! Science Machine should be totally readable. If it isn't readable, where will we get our daily fix of Science? Not from Science Machine, that's for sure!

    All hail Science Machine!

    --Rob

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    Towards the Singularity.