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#association
Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart)
Random association as AI's missing ingredient
What is the connection of LSD with machine consciousness? The kind of seemingly random association coming from humans on acid may be one of the key missing ingredients that AI has yet to master. Our brains make weird associations constantly. Some people, like the late great…
Watson versus Robin Williams
The massive amount of cultural or semantic information stored in a human brain is readily and appropriately accessible in the right contexts. What are these contexts, and how does the brain identify them? The key to this mechanism is likely the vague and fuzzy logic our brains…
History Of Measurement - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Roman feet, English miles and the yard
the Greeks and Romans inherited the foot from the Egyptians. The Roman foot (~296 mm) was divided into both 12 unciae (inches) (~24.7 mm) and 16 digits (~18.5 mm). The Romans also introduced the mille passus (1000 paces) or double steps, the pace being equal to five Roman feet…
Prof.dr. B. Mons
Knowledge discovery in escience
Each Knowlet has an ‘attraction’ to each other Knowlet with similar concepts in its ‘Object Cloud’, while some knowlets have very little to do with each other and may even repulse each other, some others may move closer and close in the Concept Web, pushed and pulled by many…
Sexuality And Gender In The Classical World - Readings And Sources
The slavish pleasure wrongly called aphrodisios
....which the author of the Seventh Letter of Plato, offended at the traditional association of sex with a deity, calls "the slavish and ugly pleasure wrongly called aphrodisios ". p.29
The Tao Of Topic Maps
Typed associations between topics
Just as topics and occurrences can be grouped according to type (e.g., composer/opera/country and mention/article/commentary, respectively), so too can associations between topics be grouped according to their type. The association type for the relationships mentioned above are…
Typed associations in a thesaurus
The special thing about associations in a thesaurus (as compared to associations found in a typical index or glossary) is that they are typed. This is important because it makes it possible not only to say that two terms are related, but also how or why they are related. It…
Association roles
Each topic that participates in an association plays a role in that association called the association role. In the case of the relationship “Puccini was born in Lucca”, expressed by the association between Puccini and Lucca, those roles might be “person” and “place”; for…
Topics, associations and occurrences
The key features of a typical index are thus: topics (identified by their names, of which there may be more than one); associations between topics; and occurrences of topics (pointed to via locators). For each of these constructs it is useful to be able to say something about…