On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 3:38 PM, Ben Goertzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Markov chains are one way of doing the math for spreading activation, but > e.g. > neural nets are another... >
But these are related things, neural nets can be considered as approximate methods for (some sorts of) graphical models. This leaves me wondering on how graphical models relate to economics interpretations of spreading activation. > On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 1:23 AM, Linas Vepstas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> >> Well, I'd like to point out that algo's like the page-rank algo >> are not unlike spreading activation, and that its danged-near >> to being a Markov chain too. Actually, upon skimming the >> Wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spreading_activation >> it seems to be *identical* to a Markov chain, so I'm a bit >> confused by that article. -- or I skimmed too fast, Dunno. >> ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=114414975-3c8e69 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
