[Haskell-cafe] Re: Quanta. Was: Wikipedia on first-class object

2008-01-07 Thread jerzy . karczmarczuk
Albert Y. C. Lai writes: Achim Schneider wrote: There is this story about some military (US afair) training a neural net to detect tanks in images ... 50% accuracy. I have some similar stories to tell A. ... students assumed sin(x+y) = sin(x) + sin(y) B. ... But that day, that car, it

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Quanta. Was: Wikipedia on first-class object

2008-01-07 Thread Albert Y. C. Lai
Achim Schneider wrote: Erm... There is this story about some military (US afair) training a neural net to detect tanks in images, I can't find the link right now. It worked, with amazing 100% accuracy. Then they threw another batch of images at the net. It worked, with devastating 50% accurac

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Quanta. Was: Wikipedia on first-class object

2008-01-06 Thread Bryan O'Sullivan
Achim Schneider wrote: > There is this story about some military (US afair) training a neural > net to detect tanks in images, I can't find the link right now. > > It worked, with amazing 100% accuracy. > > Then they threw another batch of images at the net. > > It worked, with devastating 50%

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Quanta. Was: Wikipedia on first-class object

2008-01-06 Thread Aaron Denney
On 2008-01-06, ChrisK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote: >> >> On Jan 6, 2008, at 15:02 , Ketil Malde wrote: >> >>> More seriously, perhaps "quantum" enters into the equation in how the >>> brain works, perhaps it is even necessary for "thought". However, I >>> get worr

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Quanta. Was: Wikipedia on first-class object

2008-01-06 Thread Achim Schneider
ChrisK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "how the brain works" appears to be though electro- and bio- > chemistry, which are best modeled/described right now by quantum > mechanics. > Erm... There is this story about some military (US afair) training a neural net to detect tanks in images, I can't fi

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Quanta. Was: Wikipedia on first-class object

2008-01-06 Thread ChrisK
Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote: On Jan 6, 2008, at 15:02 , Ketil Malde wrote: More seriously, perhaps "quantum" enters into the equation in how the brain works, perhaps it is even necessary for "thought". However, I get worried it's just another mystical mantra, a gratuitous factor that, lack

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Quanta. Was: Wikipedia on first-class object

2007-12-30 Thread Achim Schneider
"Peter Verswyvelen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Regarding this "the universe is a turing machine": until a couple of > years ago, I also was someone that believed that (A) the universe > (and life) could be simulated by a computer, > Yesss. Nice. A bit of Escher here: Imagine an instance of eval