Re: Have you all gone crazy? Was: On being web-friendly and why info must die

[David Kastrup]

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden> writes:

> Richard Stallman writes:
>
>  >   > The problem is not the size of the table,
>  > 
>  > We are miscommunicating.  I was not talking about the size of the
>  > data.
>
> Neither was I.
>
>  > I was talking about the work of collecting the entries it should
>  > have.
>
> So was I.
>
>  > It won't be so hard, because there won't be so many entries.
>
> That's why it's already done, and nobody has found anything missing
> after 40 years of collecting entries, right?  Unfortunately, wrong.
> People find missing entries every day (and rarely report them; they
> just use Google instead).

Google substitutes better quality with graceful failure based on
heuristics.  That works for some things better than others.  It
certainly will not help much replacing a "concept index" since the whole
point of a concept index is _not_ to be based on exact keywords.

-- 
David Kastrup