Convolving on Language In image recognition we are scanning pixels, ie data at a low level, to allow the computer to classify things that are high-level. This classification, though it is done by means that may or may not mirror what we actually do, arrives at a human-recognizable result. And it…
The Usual Suspects
Writing, Reading, Looking, Convolving Imagine you’re on a train. You pass the graffitied backs of warehouses, front-loaders parked in a snowy lot, a red-brick-and-white-wood apartment building, an electric company grid station, and then trees, a lake, and snow-dusted hills in the distance. If you turn your head, you can turn…
Pattern Recognition
On Classes and Instances Are there any concepts that could be of use in suggesting how machine learning could understand and convey meaning? I think there are: repetition and generalization. In the words of the great Philosopher Charles Barkley, I may be wrong, but I doubt it. I think perception…