WTH are you doing up at this hour?
WTH am I doing up at this hour?
Hope you-re back to sleep.
N
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
Clark University
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
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From: Friam [mailto:friam-bou
Roger writes:
"The hierarchy in this case looks like linguistic compression to me, a way of
summarizing results, the system is not depending on the levels of organization
to work, we find levels convenient for explanations of how the system works."
Glen writes:
"I'm loosely analogizing with Ko
Right. But that's the point, I think. To what extent are semantics invariant across these supposed
"levels"? My argument is that "levels" are figments of our imagination. The best we can
say is that iteration constructs something that we find convenient to name: "level". But what
reality is act
Ha! Reading and comprehension are 2 different things. I read a lot and
understand almost nothing. So, there's that. But thanks for acknowledging
whatever effort I do put in.
Let me try a more pragmatic rhetoric. Marcus' story about debugging a GGC is useful, here. I spend
all day, every day,
On Sat, May 04, 2019 at 05:25:54PM -0700, glen∈ℂ wrote:
> Right. But that's the point, I think. To what extent are semantics invariant
> across these supposed "levels"? My argument is that "levels" are figments of
> our imagination. The best we can say is that iteration constructs something
> th
If you're moving up from the phoneme to the word to the phrase level and
some result in the last disambiguates between two phonemes, what difference
does it make that you've violated some strict hierarchy?
The case can be made that Raj Reddy won the Turing award based partly on
his leadership of t
Turing Award
Pradesh, India
EDUCATION:
B.S., Civil Engineering, Guindy College of Engineering, Madras, (Now Anna
University, Chennai), India, 1958; MTech, University of New South Wales,
Sydney, Australia, 1960; PhD Stanford University, 1966.
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