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padawan12 wrote:<br>> Chris McCormick wrote:<br>> <br>> > Also, I hate to be cynical, but<br>> > I can't see any way even remotely in which Google could use Pd to make a<br>> > profit. ;) <br>> <br>> <br>> Profit aside, you can make a fundamental partition in computing <br>> between forward looking systems (predictive, generative, <br>> hypothetical, AI, imaginative type systems) and backward <br>> looking (retrospective, analytical, indexing, organising, <br>> sort, search, existing value based systems). A bit like left <br>> and right brain faculties. Most problems involve elements of <br>> both, but Google's domain (search) really falls more into the <br>> latter, while applications of Pd are constructive and fall <br>> better into the former. <br>> <br><br>Hmmm, maybe a project to find and install any Pd external missing from a patch...<br><br>Martin<br><br></body>
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