From: david@edenroad.demon.co.uk   
      
   On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 07:39:21 -0600, Dick Silk - The Computer Tutor wrote:   
      
   >>> All well and good, very worthy (if neither interesting nor original), but   
   >>> not anything like semantic comprehension of anecdotal evidence by   
   >>> computer; which was my point.   
   >   
   > "by computer" -- now he's playing semantics.  All my work was done "by   
   > computer" except for the parts that were performed "by a human."   
      
   Uh, yes, that's precisely my point.   
      
   You said: "There is a rather large rise these days in large-scale qualitative   
   data   
   mining -- extremely lucrative, when applied correctly."   
      
   I don't think you'll be able to achieve "large-scale" results without   
   computers, especially in an activity usually defined as:   
      
   "An information extraction activity whose goal is to discover hidden facts   
   contained in databases. Using a combination of machine learning,   
   statistical analysis, modeling techniques and database technology, data   
   mining finds patterns and subtle relationships in data and infers rules   
   that allow the prediction of future results. Typical applications include   
   market segmentation, customer profiling, fraud detection, evaluation of   
   retail promotions, and credit risk analysis."   
      
   Did not my constant reference to "semantic comprehension by computers"   
   clue you in?   
      
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