Words compress smaller than non-words. -- Matt Mahoney, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
----- Original Message ---- From: Mike Tintner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: agi@v2.listbox.com Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 5:47:54 AM Subject: Re: [agi] How do we know we don't know? Vlad: >I think Hofstadter's exploration of jumbles ( > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumble ) covers this ground. You don't > just recognize the word, you work on trying to connect it to what you > know, and if set of letters didn't correspond to any word, you give > up. There's still more to word recognition though than this. How do we decide what is and isn't, may or may not be a word? A neologism? What may or may not be words from: cogrough dirksilt thangthing artcop coggourd cowstock or "fomlepaung" or whatever? ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=108809214-a0d121 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
