Steve,
Sorry for not responding for a little while. Comments follow:
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>> PCA attempts to isolate components that give maximum
>> information... so my question to you becomes, do you think that the
>> problem you're pointing towards is suboptimal models that don't
>> predict the data well enough
J. Andrew,
On 1/1/09, J. Andrew Rogers wrote:
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> On Jan 1, 2009, at 2:35 PM, J. Andrew Rogers wrote:
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>> Since "digital" and "analog" are the same thing computationally ("digital"
>> is a subset of "analog"), and non-digital computers have been generally
>> superior for several decades, this
Ben,
A few points concerning the central argument:
--Reading the argument again, I again mistakenly interpreted it the
way I had the first time (until I recalled the details of our previous
discussion). The presentation of the argument causes me to assume that
U is some kind of oracle directly ac
Jim Bromer wrote:
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 4:02 PM, Richard Loosemore wrote:
My friend Mike Oaksford in the UK has written several
papers giving a higher level cognitive theory that says that people are, in
fact, doing something like bayesian estimation when then make judgments. In
fact, peopl
On Jan 1, 2009, at 2:35 PM, J. Andrew Rogers wrote:
Since "digital" and "analog" are the same thing computationally
("digital" is a subset of "analog"), and non-digital computers have
been generally superior for several decades, this is not relevant.
Gah, that should be *digital* computers
On Dec 30, 2008, at 11:45 AM, Steve Richfield wrote:
Bingo! You have to "tailor" the techniques to the problem - more
than just "solving the equations", but often the representation of
quantities needs to be in some sort of multivalued form.
What I meant is that if the standard algebraic r
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 4:02 PM, Richard Loosemore wrote:
> My friend Mike Oaksford in the UK has written several
> papers giving a higher level cognitive theory that says that people are, in
> fact, doing something like bayesian estimation when then make judgments. In
> fact, people are very go
