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The Practical Peirce: An Introduction to the Triadic Continuum Implemented as a Computer Data Structure | 
 enlarge | Author: John Zuchero
Publisher: iUniverse, Inc.
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 350022
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 249
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Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.4
ISBN: 0595441122
EAN: 9780595441129
ASIN: 0595441122
Publication Date: June 12, 2007
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Product Description
The Triadic Continuum is the invention of Jane Mazzagatti, a mathematician and software engineer. Mazzagatti came upon the idea for this new computer data structure, which is based on the work of Charles Peirce, while working on a project for Unisys Corporation. This same structure has proven commercially valuable in the efficient way it stores and allows for the analysis of large datasets. However, while learning about the nature of the structure she discovered more far-reaching implications to areas other than computer science. Charles Peirce was fascinated with how the mind reasons and with all of the scientific and philosophical implications of the mechanisms of how the brain records experience, constructs memories, and accesses previously stored experience and knowledge. Mazzagatti believes that she has rediscovered the structure of the Triadic Continuum, which is the foundation of many of Peirce's key theories dealing with human reasoning and the logic of thought.In this book the author, who worked with Mazzagatti writing patents for the invention, explains how this structure is unlike any other computer data structure or type of Artificial Intelligence-but more importantly why this structure may very well be a model for human cognition.
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 A step into the future of knowledge. February 9, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
There are two things this book is not.
First, it is not the kind of work that Soul of a New Machine by Tracie Kidder was. In that book, a crash skunk-works program created a new machine which was not a breakthrough and did so, offering a glimpse into the lives and work habits of individuals and a company driven to compete by producing a new but non disruptive technological device consisting of hardware and software. It was a fast and fun read.
Second, it is not the end of the story of the Phaneron; it is just the beginning.
What it is is two things.
First, it is a window into a story of intense commitment to a dangerously contagious idea about how information is in its native state as relative knowledge, and how that structure was created in software. To this end Zuchero's book exposes some of the known gritty details and opens up a view onto the landscape which this idea creates. It makes some comparisons to the current state of information/knowledge technology, but that is not the point. The differences are subtle and profound in their effect. The point is to understand the new paradigm.
Second, it is a story about how one individual saw through a veil of mystery surrounding that dangerously contagious idea. It is now. A small team of people, led by Jane Mazzagatti, has developed this idea into workable software which will someday enable machine intelligence, not by aping the structures and pathways of human intelligence, but by using the emergent property of accumulated knowledge in a relatively pure form, software. Jane risked her career more than once to continue to bring her vision of this idea to life by making it practical.
To miss this book is to miss a smarter future.
 Fascinating technology poorly presented November 16, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I'm very interested in the Triadic Continuum data management technology developed by Jean Mazzagatti, and will continue to monitor its progress. I'm glad this book is available to present and explain some of the concepts. The book is so poorly written, however, that I can't rate it very highly. There are 3 main problems I have with the book:
1. The author is clearly and apologist and evangelist for the subject of his book - he presents only its strengths and advantages, and none of its weaknesses. There is no critical analysis.
2. In contrasting this new technology to current relational and multi-dimensional data management technology, the author grossly exaggerates the shortcomings of those. As an example, the author correctly points out that data cubes are not real time and must be updated as data changes, but he then conflates the building of a cube (which can take days or weeks) with the updating of data in a cube (which is typically minutes or hours) and states that it can take weeks or months before data can be available to be analyzed. The author takes a valid criticism and exaggerates it so wildly that he loses credibility. This is one example of something that he does numerous places in the book.
3. The writing and editing are haphazard and disorganized. As one example, the author frequently mixes the tense of "continuum" (which should be singular) and "continua" (which should be plural). Not the end of the world, but annoying and amateur. The book is full of problems like that.
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