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Re: Laws Of Form Discussion • JB Re: Ontolog Forum Discussion • (1) Re: Sys Sci Group Discussion • (1) As I’m working from 40-year-old memories of these first inklings I thought I might peruse the web...
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Re: Sys Sci Group Discussion • (1) Re: Ontolog Forum Discussion • (1) Re: Laws Of Form Discussion • (1) Comments I made in reply to a correspondent’s questions about delimiters and tokenizing in the...
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Re: Laws Of Form Discussion • JB Re: Ontolog Forum Discussion • (1) Re: Sys Sci Group Discussion • (1) All through the 70s and 80s I spent many interesting hours hanging out in John Eulenberg’s...
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Re: Laws Of Form Discussion • JB Re: Ontolog Forum Discussion • (1) Re: Sys Sci Group Discussion • (1) Speaking of compression, either my present memory or my mind at the time mushed together two...
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The main idea behind the Theme One program is the efficient use of graph-theoretic data structures for the tasks of “learning” and “reasoning”. I am thinking of learning in the sense of learning about...
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A side-effect of working on the Theme One program over the course of a decade was the measure of insight it gave me into the reasons why empiricists and rationalists have so much trouble understanding...
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Sometime around 1970 John B. Eulenberg came from Stanford to direct Michigan State’s Artificial Language Lab, where I would come to spend many interesting hours hanging out all through the 70s and 80s....
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From Zipf’s Law and the category of “things that vary inversely with frequency” I got my first brush with the idea that keeping track of usage frequencies is part and parcel of building efficient...
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Since I’m working from decades-old memories of first inklings I thought I might peruse the web for current information about Zipf’s Law. I see there is now something called the Zipf–Mandelbrot (and...
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Comments I made in reply to a correspondent’s questions about delimiters and tokenizing in the Learner module may be worth sharing here. In one of the projects I submitted toward a Master’s in...
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