Re: Scaled or Granular Dates
Date: 8 Jan 2004 15:28:57 -0800
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>> January 2004 Scientific American? It is mind blowing. It might
That is on the stack for the month. I am swamped right now; one of
the many problems with being a grown up is that you have to provide
Christmas instead of enjoy it. Actually, Wolfram is into a fuly
discrete model of the universe-as-finite-automata that is interesting.
also be wrong. The preamble reads 'We perceive space and time to be
continuous, but if the amazing theory of loop quantum gravity is
correct, they actually come in discrete pieces'. ... but maybe the
sweeping statement about continuity of time is overstated. <<
>> There's also a book "Time Granularities in Databases, Data Mining,
Sounds good; I'll take a look. Do you have the Morgan-Kaufmann book
by Rick Snodgrass? Lots of code, but you can go back to his work at
University of Arizona for the theoretical stuff.
and Temporal Reasoning" by C Bettini, S Jajodia, S X Wang, published
by Springer, 2000, ISBN 3-540-66997-3 (in Engish, despite the ISBN
prefix suggesting German). I've not read it all yet - on the to do
list - but it might be of some relevance, too. <<