Me thinks you've hit upon one of the man's loves! :) On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 09:18 -0800, wayne burdick wrote: > Dan Romanchik KB6NU wrote: > > > But copying CW isn't like trying to understand natural language. If > > computers can now beat grandmasters at chess, computers should be able > > to copy any code that a good operator can decipher. I don't even > > think we need more powerful computers; we just need better algorithms. > > Humans use lexicographical and semantic clues to fill in dropped CW > characters, and computers can do the same. But this goes way beyond the > simple signal processing used in, say, the K3's present CW decoder or > the one used in HRD. (I studied natural language recognition in college > and was anxious to play with either neural networks or traditional AI > methods as the foundation for CW decoding, but my other classes got in > the way :) <.....>
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