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I don't think their goals are considerably different; I'm curious about their approaches however. How divergent are they?



There's some journalism-speak about it here.[1]

It seems like the two algorithms are very similar, but that RCN's represent information in a more continuous way. Maybe this allows for more flexibility? Do the sizes of the hierarchical / recursive chunks get changed over time now, or is it not a strict hierarchy anymore? Stuff is weird.

[1] http://www.kurzweilai.net/vicarious-announces-15-million-fun...




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