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From: meron@cars3.uchicago.edu
Subject: Re: Neural Nets and Quantum Mechanics/Computation
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In article <321332F7.E9B@citicorp.com>, Robert Fung <robert.fung@citicorp.com> writes:
>meron@cars3.uchicago.edu wrote:
> > 
> > "Function" may indeed mean many things.  I assume that our difference
> > stems from the fact that I assumed you're talking about wave functions
> > (which, as a rule, are continuous) while you had in mind physical
> > parameters, like energy, momentum etc. which in QM are often (though
> > not always) discrete.
>
>          Indeed. Context is a gas. 
>
>	  It's not an easy problem though, as witnessed by the 
>          state of computer recognition techniques.
>	
>	  Imagine trying to determine allophonic context... then
>	  sentence context..., then topic context...
>          in real time with a PC. 
>
I wouldn't even try to imagine it.  And yet, our brain manages to do 
it most of the time (I know, it is not running under Windows, that 
helps a bit, but still...)

>          Ouch. Short cuts are needed :)

Well, if you find the right shortcut, in 10 years people will be 
asking "Gates who?".

Mati Meron			| "When you argue with a fool,
meron@cars.uchicago.edu		|  chances are he is doing just the same"
