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