CONTACTS 

SUBJECTS
Learning Results of LSA Testing
Knowledge Acquisition
Experience Improves Induction
Vocabulary Learning Rates

0706 -
0706 -    ..
0707 - Summary/Objective
0708 -
070801 - Follow up ref SDS 24 0000, ref SDS 23 0990.
070802 -
070803 - Testing the model is explained at ref OF 7 8499, asking followging
070804 - questions;
070805 -
070806 -     [On 030630 followed up. ref SDS 65 L952
070807 -
070808 -     1.  Could such a simple linear model acquire knowledge of
070809 -         human-like word meaning similarities to a significant extent
070810 -         if given a large amount of natural text?
070812 -          ..
070813 -     2.  Supposing it did, would its success depend strongly on the
070814 -         dimensionality of its representation?
070816 -          ..
070817 -     3.  How would its rate of acquisition compare with that of a human
070818 -         reading the same amount of text?
070820 -          ..
070821 -     4.  How much of the model's knowledge would come from indirect
070822 -         inferences that combine information across samples rather than
070823 -         directly from the local contiguity information present in the
070824 -         input data?
070825 -
070827 -  ..
070828 - The author's say at ref OF 7 0722:
070829 -
070830 -     After training, the model's word knowledge was tested with 80 old
070831 -     items from the synonym portion of the Test of English as _ Foreign
070832 -     Language (TOEFL), kindly provided by Educational Testing Service.
070833 -
070834 -     What is "training" - how is the model "trained"?
070835 -
070837 -  ..
070838 - There is a standard word-meaning test to select a word with the same
070839 - meaning as an object word.  The object word is called a "stem" word.
070841 -  ..
070842 - The LSA matrix model using vector analysis scored 52% which is about
070843 - the same as non-English students taking the same test. ref OF 7 8271
070844 - The authors say "...the model quite closely mimicked the behavior of a
070845 - group of moderately proficient English-readers with respect to
070846 - judgments of meaning similarity."  They call this:
070848 -                      ..
070849 -                     knowledge acquisition and learning
070850 -
070851 - ...from experience constructing meaning to learn and remember,
070852 - ref OF 7 8499.  The authors seem to say the LSA model "reads"
070853 - ref OF 7 9115
070855 -  ..
070856 - "Knowledge acquisition" from learning in the cognitive science model
070857 - seems related to "memory" of associations from experience, reported on
070858 - 960324. ref SDS 23 8844  The brain constructs "meaning" using someting
070859 - comparable to vector dimension matching for induction operating on
070860 - memory of contextual experience, reported on 960321, ref SDS 21 2882,
070861 - which results in everything being related to everything else, again
070862 - reviewed on 960324. ref SDS 23 8X50
070864 -  ..
070865 - This aligns with review on 900329 correlating human reasoning with
070866 - memory, ref SDS 2 1323, and citing prior work on 900303 reviewing
070867 - Campbell's book on cognitive science that explains "common sense,"
070868 - ref SDS 1 5443, derived from expanding impoverished information to
070869 - make judgements based on paradigms from memory of experience,
070870 - ref SDS 1 6831, and noting people pay a price for acting on limited
070871 - information. ref SDS 1 7Z6G
070872 -
070873 -        [...below "meaning drift" presents risk management issue to
070874 -        maintain accuracy from continual evolution of meaning due to
070875 -        commingling information over time. ref SDS 0 3734
070877 -         ..
070878 -        [On 980405 everything related to everything else, people
070879 -        worry context management and making connections with links
070880 -        to maintain alignment for accuracy is a hopeless task;
070881 -        overlooks long march of civilization using records
070882 -        management and library science to aid human cognition
070883 -        understanding complexity, even though every connection
070884 -        cannot be tracked. ref SDS 49 R63L
070886 -         ..
070887 -        [On 990317 glasses in a cupboard analogy illustrates
070888 -        intelligence process based on Landauer's induction theory
070889 -        that new information adjusts meaning of everything else.
070890 -        ref SDS 53 0594
070892 -         ..
070893 -        [On 020608 knowledge define case study hard for people to
070894 -        grasp, ref SDS 63 CC6J; philosophy grounding for "Knowledge
070895 -        Management" reviewed 050115, ref SDS 68 SF5K, correlates with
070896 -        cognitive science reviewed 960518, ref SDS 34 GS58, management
070897 -        tasks considered 000307, ref SDS 61 767G, and physical science
070898 -        locality principle power of knowledge predicts and controls the
070899 -        future, reviewed on 040312, ref SDS 67 YH4G
070901 -         ..
070902 -        [On 031215 subject indexing difficult because information has
070903 -        multiple meanings based on context, excellent explanation with
070904 -        examples in Freeman's 1997 PhD thesis paper presenting
070905 -        Lifestreams to Professor Gelertner at Yale ref SDS 66 K37H
070907 -  ..
070908 - Actually, the authors suggest the LSA model did much better than
070909 - humans because it used only dimensionality, whereas real humans rely
070910 - on a variety of other strategies to guess about the meaning of text,
070911 - ref OF 7 line 1488, such as sight, sound, knowledge of grammar,
070912 - syntax.  They describe human capacities derived from being able to see
070913 - and hear to induce meaning which the model did not use:
070915 -                ..
070916 -            •  phonology
070917 -            •  morphology
070918 -            •  orthography
070919 -            •  real world perceptual knowledge
070920 -
070921 - ...cited at ref OF 7 9115, and again at ref OF 7 5005 and ref OF 7
070922 - 7008
070924 -  ..
070925 - Dimensionality was found to be key factor, ref OF 7 8444, per analysis
070926 - on 960324. ref SDS 23 3250
070927 -
070928 -
070929 -
070930 -
070931 -
070932 -
0710 -

SUBJECTS
Learning Results of LSA Testing
Connections in Communication Metrics
Learning Parameters of Humans
Constraints in Language Acquisition
Connectedness of Text Improves Learning
Citations, Continual Learning, Context Window Size
Sternberg, Durkin, Drum & Konopak, Miller
Investing Intellectual Capital
Prior Understandings to Create New Records
Minute is About the Time People Can Align
Alphabet Applies Connectionist Theory

3913 -
391401 -  ..
391402 - Connected Text is "Context" that Grows New Knowledge
391403 - Alphabet Connects Small Meanings into Large Patterns of Understanding
391404 -
391405 - Follow up ref SDS 21 5588, ref SDS 23 3250.
391406 -
391407 - The authors say...
391408 -
391409 -     5. our belief is that connected passages of text on a particular
391410 -    topic are the effective units of context for learning...
391411 -    ref OF 7 6299
391413 -  ..
391414 - Growing knowledge from weighted vectors of connections. ref OF 7 8500
391416 -  ..
391417 - On 950925 context and vector methods applied in technology for drawing
391418 - meaning from alphabet, similar to human cognition. ref SDS 15 0583
391420 -  ..
391421 - Connections exercise influence through dimension-matching induction
391422 - that enables spontaneous generation of abstractions such as chunks,
391423 - concepts and categories much greater force and flexibility.
391424 - ref OF 7 6839 again at ref OF 7 5535
391425 -
391426 -      [On 960809 Landauer discusses "chunks" again. ref SDS 37 0085]
391428 -       ..
391429 -      [On 990303 "chunks" are basic blocks of cognition. ref SDS 52
391430 -      2838]
391432 -  ..
391433 - This seems to indicate "context" yields meaning, understanding, and
391434 - comprehension, and thus connected information builds knowledge.  On
391435 - 950822 Morris cited "context" as an advantage to understand comments.
391436 - ref SDS 14 0004
391438 -  ..
391439 - On 940609 alphabet reviewed as analysis of connecting small pictures
391440 - into the "big picture." ref SDS 10 8854
391442 -  ..
391443 - "Intelligence" is the process that connects information into
391444 - chronologies of cause and effect to produce new knowledge.
391446 -  ..
391447 - The alphabet is a physical analog of connections created in the mind
391448 - to construct larger understandings from small meanings of letters,
391449 - noted in this review on 960321, ref SDS 21 8590, on 960324,
391450 - ref SDS 23 2025, embodied by connectionist theory cited by Campbell
391451 - reviewed on 900303. ref SDS 1 6006
391452 -
391453 -       [On 991108 history of alhpabet explains its power as foundation
391454 -       of civilization. ref SDS 60 5628]
391456 -  ..
391457 - This follows up inquiry on 960321 about the role of "structure" (also
391458 - "organization"), in information, time and experience that creates
391459 - knowledge. ref SDS 21 1234
391460 -
391461 - "Meaning" is discussed on 960321. ref SDS 21 2882
391462 -
391463 -        [On 990215 Roy Roebuck's GEM provides a system of "Context
391464 -        Management." ref SDS 51 3822]
391466 -         ..
391467 -        [On 990427 Roebuck planned research on "context" to support
391468 -        Enterprise Management in proposal to NSF. ref SDS 55 3360]
391470 -         ..
391471 -        [On 990803 Palanza's research project with NSF attributes
391472 -        accounting as a context management method. ref SDS 56 9654]
391473 -
391474 -
391476 -  ..
391477 - Investing Intellectual Capital
391478 - Recylcing Human Experience (Time) to Grow New Knowledge
391479 -
391480 - LSA vector analysis of "context" applies idea of using experience, as
391481 - connected chronologies, to grow new knowledge of cause and effect.
391482 - ref OF 7 4838.  See, also, "Meaning Space," discussed on 950324
391483 - ref SDS 23 7034 and on 960809. ref SDS 37 7860.  This seems to be
391484 - another way in which "time" and information integrate to produce
391485 - knowledge, reviewed on 960325. ref SDS 24 6666.
391487 -  ..
391488 - Unfortunately, this seems to conflict with "common sense" from
391489 - managers' daily experience, reported on 910529. ref SDS 3 9989
391490 -
391491 -       [On 960620 applied idea of integrating time and information to
391492 -       get knowledge, paper on Asilomar Conference, ref SDS 35 3516.]
391493 -
391494 -       [On 990215 Roy Roebuck's GEM provides a system of "Context
391495 -       Management." ref SDS 51 3822]
391497 -     ..
391498 -    Welch Management Method - Recycle Intellectual Capital
391499 -    Brain Grows New Knowledge Units by Replicating Old Ones
391500 -
391501 -    The authors say the brain grows new knowledge units by replicating
391502 -    and then modifying old ones that comprise connected chronologies.
391503 -    ref OF 7 8500, which reflects an aspect of the "time/information"
391504 -    continuum emulated by SDS.  There is discussion of what I call
391505 -    "recycling experience to grow new knowledge," at ref OF 7 4838.
391507 -     ..
391508 -    This was formulated in POIMS as the "intelligence" process of plan,
391509 -    perform, report, that drives the "management cycle," of continual
391510 -    learning. ref OF 3 7222
391512 -     ..
391513 -    The role of the alphabet to emulate human thinking by assemlbing
391514 -    small meanings into larger blocks of knowledge was developed on
391515 -    940609. ref SDS 10 8854
391516 -    ..
391517 -    It was applied on 930313 to changing the paradigm of
391518 -    computers for producing traditional "documents" as information, to
391519 -    a new notion of an automated "continuous knowledge stream,"
391520 -    ref SDS 6 0589, as discussed with Dave Bounchristiani on 960307.
391521 -    ref SDS 19 4492
391523 -          ..
391524 -         Meaning Space to Knowledge Space
391525 -
391526 -         The author's idea of growing new knowledge units from existing
391527 -         ones gives rise to the idea of "knowledge space."
391528 -
391529 -             [On 960620 developed "Knowledge Space" for a paper on
391530 -             Concurrent Discovery. ref SDS 35 3516]
391532 -              ..
391533 -             [On 960809 the authors in fact develop a theory of
391534 -             "meaning space" ref SDS 37 7860.]
391536 -     ..
391537 -    The authors do not mention any mental process of "maintaining"
391538 -    knowledge.  The only system available to encounter repeated
391539 -    experience reinforcing and strengthening understanding, which is
391540 -    the source of expertise, like a doctor, bus driver, piano player.
391541 -    Communication Metrics recognizes that for information gatherers,
391542 -    like managers, whose acts are relatively unique and non-repetitive,
391543 -    an effort is needed to "tend the garden of knowledge" which is
391544 -    possible using SDS, per discussion at SCU on 951012. ref SDS 16
391545 -    9066.
391546 -
391548 -     ..
391549 -    Communication Metrics & POIMS Supported by Replication
391550 -
391551 -    Replication to grow new knowledge appears to support the original
391552 -    idea of SDS in 1985 to use existing records to make new schedule
391553 -    tasks so chronologies are automatically created, analogous to
391554 -    "growing new knowledge."
391556 -     ..
391557 -    This may support the role of SDS citations for continual
391558 -    learning on a wider scale.
391559 -
391561 -  ..
391562 - People Can Align Understandings for 1 Minute
391563 - Span of Attention Limited by Context Window Size
391564 -
391565 - The authors don't know how the mind chooses a "context window size."
391566 - ref OF 7 8301.   This seems to relate to how much stuff it can hold
391567 - at the forefront of its attention to compare (dimension match) with
391568 - something else, and likely contributes to "meaning drift" discussed in
391569 - next segment. ref SDS 0 3734
391570 -
391571 -    They speculate that a variety of different "window sizes" might be
391572 -    used simultaneously. ref OF 7 8301  They feel a sliding window size
391573 -    might be used.
391575 -       ..
391576 -      [On 960809 "chunks" of memory in "meaning space" seem related to
391577 -      limited span of attention. ref SDS 37 7860]
391579 -       ..
391580 -      [On 990303 theory of memory "chunks" came from George Miller's
391581 -      work in 1954 on cognitive science. ref SDS 52 2838]
391583 -     ..
391584 -    Management Productivity, Risk Management, Span of Attention
391585 -
391586 -    Limited span of attention seems evident from traditional ways for
391587 -    presenting information using 8.5 x 11 documents, and from the
391588 -    difficulty holding a discussion that wanders off the subject,
391589 -    reviewed on 950204 that people can align understandings for only
391590 -    about a minute. ref SDS 13 0550
391592 -     ..
391594 -     ..
391595 -    Limitations aligning understandings is apparent in conversation,
391596 -    particularly meetings, where dialog is discursive and analysis is
391597 -    cursory because people are not prepared, they get tired, issues are
391598 -    complex, and memories are short.  People spend a lot of time
391599 -    arguing about what was said the last time and are unable to fully
391600 -    address all of the points raised, because nobody can remember all
391601 -    of them by the time they finish formulating and responding to one
391602 -    or two.
391604 -     ..
391605 -    On 941211 example of managers and engineers at PG&E who remember
391606 -    things differently from one meeting to the next, because there is
391607 -    no record of shared meaning. ref SDS 12 6488
391608 -
391609 -        [On 960721 frustrations from meetings ref SDS 36 0896.]
391610 -
391611 -        [On 960620 applied these understandings to paper on Concurrent
391612 -        Discovery. ref SDS 35 4851]
391614 -         ..
391615 -        [On 960911 Kwan Henmi's communication consultant demonstrated
391616 -        that it is difficult to align understandings from conversation.
391617 -        ref SDS 38 3421]
391619 -         ..
391620 -        [On 980307 Andy Grove's book "Only the Paranoid Survive"
391621 -        explains challenge of mental ambiguity that requires
391622 -        affirmative methods to overcome. ref SDS 48 3668]
391623 - ..
391624 - Authors believe the dimension-matching methods of LSA offers a
391625 - promising solution to the ancient puzzle of human knowledge induction.
391626 - ref OF 7 0482
391628 -  ..
391629 - There is minimal discussion of the interplay between consciousness and
391630 - what might be going on in the subconscious, possibly described as...
391631 -
391632 -
391633 -                       unconscious induction
391634 -
391635 -
391636 - ...in the paper, ref OF 7 7402, and which is discussed by Jeromy
391637 - Campbell in his book "The Improbable Machine" reviewed on 900303.
391638 - ref SDS 1 0405
391639 - ..
391640 - The human mind can draw simultaneously on a wide range of
391641 - sources for determining word meaning, in both speech and writing, per
391642 - ref OF 7 7222 and ref OF 7 1834
391644 -  ..
391645 - The authors say new contextual encounters and new experience with any
391646 - word improves knowledge of all other words. ref OF 7 4199
391648 -  ..
391649 - Humans recognize the order of the words, applying syntax, logical,
391650 - grammatical, discursive or situational relations of words. ref OF 7
391651 - 5291
391653 -  ..
391654 - Sternberg, (1987) and psycholinguistics (e.g., Kintsch & Vipond, 1979;
391655 - Miller, 1978) have stressed the obvious importance of these factors to
391656 - the reader's ability to infer word meanings from text. ref OF 7 5291
391657 - ..
391658 - Other human learning capacities include recognizing internal
391659 - structure and perceptual identities, evidently called morphological
391660 - relations based on sound or spelling similarities.  Human experience
391661 - in world supports associating words and text samples with real-world
391662 - objects or events or with its own thoughts or intended actions.  This
391663 - may be what the authors call phonological symbolism (onomatopoeia) to
391664 - infer the relation between words. ref OF 7 line 7008
391665 -
391666 -
391667 -
391668 -
3917 -

SUBJECTS
Conclusions about LSA Efficacy, Plato's Problem
Convert Information into Knowledge
Learning (builds experience), Induction (multiplies learning)
Landauer Plato's Problem, LSA model
Meaning Drift Truth Moving Target Complexity Communication Dynamic U

7007 -
700801 -  ..
700802 - Follow up ref SDS 24 5689.
700803 -
700804 - Conclusions that LSA solves Plato's Problem, ref OF 7 line 1564, by
700805 - emulating human learning at ref OF 7 line 1508, are set out in the
700806 - record on 960321. ref SDS 21 5873
700808 -  ..
700809 - The conclusions support the idea that induction at least replicates
700810 - the "mysterious" mental faculty of learning. ref OF 7 3927
700811 -
700812 -      This seems to address in part the Time article on how the mind
700813 -      "turns water into wine" reviewed on 960409. ref SDS 26 7211
700814 -
700816 -  ..
700817 - Truth is a Moving Target
700818 -
700819 - The authors say their LSA model implicitly expresses the hypothesis
700820 - that word meanings grow continuously within an individual mind, and
700821 - collectively among a culture, and that correct performance on a
700822 - multiple choice vocabulary test is a stochastic event governed by
700823 - individual differences in experience, by sampling of alternatives in
700824 - the test items and by fluctuations, perhaps contextually determined,
700825 - in momentary knowledge states.  As a result, word meanings are in
700826 - constant flux, and no word is ever known perfectly. ref OF 7 1559.
700827 -
700828 -       [On 960809 new experience impacts everything. ref SDS 37 2827]
700830 -        ..
700831 -       [On 000515 paper by Mary Keeler cites Charles Peirce as
700832 -       important philosopher in United States, who formed theory of
700833 -       knowledge and meaning, as derived from human experience, and
700834 -       that accuracy requires constant investigation. ref SDS 62 0042
700836 -  ..
700837 - This condition reflects the experience of "Knowledge Creep" in the SDS
700838 - diary, explained at SCU. ref SDS 16 9403
700839 -
700840 -     "Stochastic" means characterized by conjecture, influenced by
700841 -     random variables resulting in different outcomes due to chance.
700842 -     Statistics identify a range of results.  This definition seems to
700843 -     support the notion of variability in "understanding" due to near
700844 -     term events.
700845 -
700847 -  ..
700848 - More input impacts unconscious induction from experience causing
700849 - changes to existing "knowledge" per review on 960321. ref SDS 21 2882
700850 - and also ref SDS 21 4537
700851 -
700852 -     This seems to support Communication Metrics thesis developed on
700853 -     960506 that "truth is a moving target," ref SDS 31 0001, and
700854 -     earlier on 960501. ref SDS 29 9477   I used this idea in meeting
700855 -     with Turner to plan Asilomar on 960515. ref SDS 33 8842
700857 -      ..
700858 -     On 911009 example at DNRC using different meaning for "plant
700859 -     inspection," ref SDS 4 3333; and on 920120 reviewing documents,
700860 -     ref SDS 5 7777.
700862 -      ..
700863 -     See example that participants at meetings do not agree on what
700864 -     transpired, from record on 960510, ref SDS 32 2943 [later in
700865 -     debriefing Asilomar on 960721, ref SDS 36 0896 and on SDS records
700866 -     being "inaccurate" ref SDS 36 6666.]
700868 -      ..
700869 -     [On 960620 used "truth a moving target" to prepare Asilomar paper
700870 -     for David Buoncristiani using the law to make the point,
700871 -     ref SDS 35 1111.]
700872 -
700873 -     [On 960911 communication consultant demonstrated it is difficult
700874 -     to align understandings from conversation. ref SDS 38 3421]
700876 -      ..
700877 -     [On 940111 reviewed book on communication that says meaning and
700878 -     understanding are difficult to achieve. ref SDS 8 2074]
700880 -      ..
700881 -     [On 970829 another book says meaning varies between people and for
700882 -     the same person at different times. ref SDS 45 7721]
700884 -      ..
700885 -     [On 990317 glasses in cupboard analogy illustrates intelligence
700886 -     process based on Landauer's induction theory that new information
700887 -     adjusts meaning of everything else. ref SDS 53 0594]
700888 -
700889 -
700891 -  ..
700892 - Meaning Drift Makes Management Comedy of Errors
700893 - Risks of Management by Conversation Due to Ambiguity and Complexity
700894 -
700895 - "Truth is a moving target," ref SDS 0 4488, because, as the authors
700896 - explain, words have different meanings to people and to the same
700897 - person at different times, ref OF 7 1626 (see also at ref OF 7 1834 on
700898 - wider application to general "knowledge").
700900 -  ..
700901 - Aligns with explanation of "induction" on 960321 where new information
700902 - impacts meaning of what is already known. ref SDS 21 2882
700904 -  ..
700905 - Explains "telephone game" problem on 940106, ref SDS 7 3249, and
700906 - compounds the price people pay for relying on "common sense" that uses
700907 - inducation to expand information, explained by Campbell in his book on
700908 - AI reviewed on 900303. ref SDS 1 4456
700909 -
700910 -     [On 960809 cause of meaning drift derives from how "meaning" is
700911 -     constructed in the mind. ref SDS 37 8849
700913 -      ..
700914 -     [On 971229 "telephone game" reviewed again. ref SDS 46 1526
700916 -      ..
700917 -     [On 990303 scientific paper explains "recoding" commonly called
700918 -     paraphrasing may cause meaning drift. ref SDS 52 2838
700920 -      ..
700921 -     [On 990317 glasses in cupboard analogy illustrates intelligence
700922 -     process based on Landauer's induction theory that new information
700923 -     adjusts meaning of everything else. ref SDS 53 0594]
700925 -      ..
700926 -     [On 990329 Pinker says this is a "feature, not a bug." ref SDS 54
700927 -     3196
700929 -      ..
700930 -     [On 021118 "reality monitoring" in cognitive science and
700931 -     psychology verfies accuracy of perceptions to avoid mistakes.
700932 -     ref SDS 64 LY6O
700934 -      ..
700935 -     [On 000515 paper by Mary Keeler cites Charles Peirce as important
700936 -     philosopher in United States, who formed theory of knowledge and
700937 -     meaning, as derived from human experience, and that accuracy
700938 -     requires constant investigation. ref SDS 62 0042
700940 -      ..
700941 -     [On 031215 subject indexing difficult because information has
700942 -     multiple meanings based on context, excellent explanation
700943 -     with examples in Freeman's 1997 PhD thesis paper at Yale
700944 -     presenting Lifestreams to Professor Gelertner. ref SDS 66
700945 -     K37H
700947 -  ..
700948 - Meaning drift and limited span of attention, ref SDS 0 8787, make
700949 - management a "comedy of errors" due to continual bumbling, rather than
700950 - continual learning, reviewed on 960506. ref SDS 31 2222
700952 -  ..
700953 - The gradual drift of "meaning" over time reflects the process of
700954 - "knowledge creep" explained at Santa Clara University on 951012.
700955 - ref SDS 16 9403
700956 -
700957 -     [On 990924 cited "meaning drift" as significant cause of medical
700958 -     mistakes, that also occurs in general management. ref SDS 58 3077]
700960 -      ..
700961 -     [On 991101 correlation with "confusion," ref SDS 59 2800, and
700962 -     solution of "alignment." ref SDS 59 1448]
700964 -  ..
700965 - The LSA model explains the "ambiguity" problem where words point in
700966 - many different directions in "meaning hyperspace" but the vector
700967 - average (context?) provides particular meaning at any point in time.
700968 - ref OF 7 8452  This makes "common sense" an alluring but harmful
700969 - decision criteria, because it reflects only momentary perspective,
700970 - rather than the vessel of wisdom it is thought to impart, as explained
700971 - in the NWO paper. ref OF 4 4235
700972 -
700973 -     [On 960809 meaning space defined. ref SDS 37 7860]
700975 -      ..
700976 -     [On 960809 new experience impacts everything. ref SDS 37 2827]
700977 - ..
700978 - Meaning drift supports the paper for Asilomar Conference that
700979 - suggests caution in determininations about telling the truth,
700980 - ref SDS 25 3333, since "truth is a moving target," per above.
700981 - ref SDS 0 4488
700983 -  ..
700984 - Meaning drift supports the letter to PMI Comm; ref SDS 27 8888, the
700985 - draft letter for Turner at ref SDS 30 3333, and the meeting with Fluor
700986 - Daniel at ref SDS 29 0022.
700988 -  ..
700989 - Cal Tech's book on management has a section on communications that
700990 - makes the same point that "meaning" is tenuousness, reviewed on
700991 - 940111. ref SDS 8 2074, and on 940114 article explains why business
700992 - meetings are unproductive, ref SDS 9 2290.
700993 -
700994 -     If word meanings are in constant flux from dimension matching, and
700995 -     are vulnerable to the time/information factor, ref SDS 21 6666,
700996 -     then it seems likely that less stable "understandings," for
700997 -     example, what Tom told Dick about changing a specification
700998 -     requirement on terms of payment that is supposed to be finalized
700999 -     after Harry agrees to add another room on plan sheet A6," would
701000 -     likewise seem to be constantly in flux in the human mind, due to
701001 -     the influence of other conversations, meetings, calls and
701002 -     documents, as indicated by the LSA model at ref OF 7 1834, and so
701003 -     the sooner stuff can be written down and connected up, the greater
701004 -     likelihood there is to formulate a stable knowledge base.
701005 -
701007 -      ..
701008 -     DNRC example of different meanings about plant inspection, per
701009 -     ref SDS 4 3333; and on reviewing documents, ref SDS 5 7777.
701010 -
701011 -     Another example is the oil ship that sank reported in a case study
701012 -     at Aslilomar on 940611. ref SDS 11 8473
701013 -
701014 -         [See application in paper for Asilomar by TMJ&B, ref SDS 35
701015 -         5678.]
701017 -          ..
701018 -         [See result of "management by conversation" is a commedy of
701019 -         errors, per ref SDS 31 2222.]
701021 -          ..
701022 -         [See example from a "Day at the Dentist" ref SDS 39 9999 and
701023 -         at ref SDS 39 2378.]
701025 -          ..
701026 -         [On 960911 communication expert demonstrated it is difficult
701027 -         to align understandings from conversation. ref SDS 38 3421]
701029 -          ..
701030 -         [On 970409 Corps of Engineers report on Communication Metrics
701031 -         to avoid management by "Guess and Gossip." ref SDS 40 6734.]
701033 -          ..
701034 -         [On 970518 Corps of Engineers report on Communication Metrics
701035 -         that explains cognition and intelligence, ref SDS 41 2277.]
701037 -          ..
701038 -         [On 970526 explain distinction between traditional "metrics"
701039 -         to determine business process effectivenss based on cost and
701040 -         schedule control, with expectation that management can take
701041 -         corrective action, ref SDS 42 4132.  Whereas, Communication
701042 -         Metrics discovers deviations and takes immediate action to
701043 -         avoid cost and schedule problems, thereby improving
701044 -         communication and management effectiveness, ref SDS 42 4133.]
701046 -          ..
701047 -         [On 970707 USAF study shows information entropy causes project
701048 -         failure, ref SDS 43 0108.]
701050 -          ..
701051 -         [On 970829 Book explains communication is difficult because
701052 -         meaning and understanding are difficult to achieve,
701053 -         ref SDS 45 7721, and ref SDS 45 4491.]
701055 -          ..
701056 -         [On 971229 management training film uses "telephone game" to
701057 -         show meaning drift. ref SDS 46 1526]
701059 -          ..
701060 -         [On 980307 Andy Grove's book "Only the Paranoid Survive" cites
701061 -         need for writing out thoughts to avoid ambiguity of a
701062 -         "forgiving mind." ref SDS 48 3668]
701064 -          ..
701065 -         [On 990924 article on high cost of medical mistakes needs
701066 -         solution to telephone game to fix meaning drift. ref SDS 58
701067 -         3922]
701068 -
701069 -
701071 -  ..
701072 - Knowledge Creep
701073 - Murphy's Law - Mysterious Errors
701074 -
701075 - There is an interesting corellary between ref OF 7 1559
701077 -  ..
701078 -
701079 -                 Word/Understanding/Meaning Drift
701080 -
701081 -    ...and Knowledge Creep which occurs physically in SDS, discussed on
701082 -    951012 with SCU on SDS study at ref SDS 16 9403; the impact is
701083 -    explained on 950204. ref SDS 13 0550
701084 -
701085 -        On 960325 another cause of error in dimension matching is from
701086 -        complexity, called "hilly terrain." ref SDS 24 4839
701087 -    ..
701088 -    It seems attractive to suppose that Landauer's "meaning
701089 -    drift" is caused by something in the human brain analogous to
701090 -    "knowledge creep" in SDS, as new connections begin to push old
701091 -    stuff down a stack, and when excessive, the original meaning
701092 -    ("connection") is lost.
701094 -     ..
701095 -    Actually, meaning drift seems to be inherent in the very process of
701096 -    "thinking" to the extent it reflects LSA vector analysis that by
701097 -    definition changes everything the system "knows" as a function of
701098 -    each new item of input, see for example the discussion at ref OF 7
701099 -    1834.
701101 -     ..
701102 -    In any case this seems like another way to grasp or explain what is
701103 -    occurring that causes mysterious mistakes, called Murphy's Law.
701104 -            ..
701105 -         On 960506 management by conversation is a "commedy of
701106 -         errors," ref SDS 31 0001]
701107 -
701109 -  ..
701110 - Does LSA address the apparent process of humans assuming knowledge of
701111 - past patterns of speech, and so "tuning out" further input? reviewed
701112 - on 960409. ref SDS 26 0505
701113 -
701114 -     Actually it might not, because the model looks at every pattern
701115 -     and then selects the best fit, whereas, humans seem to look only
701116 -     for a "good" fit, and then stop looking, where "good" is
701117 -     predicated on whether it seems to resolve the current state of
701118 -     interest, concern or fear.
701120 -      ..
701121 -     The model might be programmed to find the best fit within a
701122 -     certain time frame, or certain "knowledge" area.
701123 -
701124 -                             ..
701125 - Can the model commingle data from different contiguities, as
701126 - people seem to do in remembering incorrectly, yet being certain of
701127 - their understanding?
701128 -
701129 -     With "words" as analysed by LSA so far, it appears this would not
701130 -     come up.
701131 -
701132 -     With word patterns, however, this might occur.  The model would
701133 -     have to store a lot of different patterns that are capable of
701134 -     coming up in different arrangements of contiguity.  Then it would
701135 -     be assembling patterns as it goes along to dimension match against
701136 -     test data.  These stored patterns would represent the experience
701137 -     from life and/or reading.
701139 -      ..
701140 -     Seems like the analysis at ref OF 7 line 1647, may apply to some
701141 -     of these issues.
701142 -
701143 -
701144 -
7012 -