Currently I am in Pittsburgh dividing my time
between neurology and machine learning.
I'd appreciate any comments you have on:
"[FoRK] intelligence and turbo coding"
http://xent.com/pipermail/fork/Week-of-Mon-20061113/043489.html
(referring to Shaon, Galun, Sharon, Basri, Brandt,
"Hierarchy and adaptivity in segmenting visual scenes"
Vol 442 | 17 August 2006 | doi:10.1038/nature04977 (page 810))
Basic thesis: is intelligence (of the wetware variety) closer to the
individually-slow-but-highly-parallelizable decoding of signals from a
very noisy channel than the AI (of the logical variety) which involves
questions of representation and deduction?
-Dave
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This, despite the fact that I know several people who have mastered
two unrelated professions -- accountancy/programming,
chef/programming, programming/welding, fashion design/translator.
are we supposed to guess which silklister is which?
