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From: mccane@cs.jcu.edu.au (Brendan McCane)
Subject: Re: Machine Learning Breakthrough
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In <3pjjr1$t5@newsbf02.news.aol.com> marengom@aol.com (MarengoM) writes:

>Re: Machine Learning Breakthrough

>dmagsig@seas.gwu.edu (Daniel E. Magsig) writes:

>>Your response to my post helped a lot.  It'll probably take a couple
>>of days to fully digest.  Meanwhile, I have a few lower level
>>questions...

>  Judging by our email, you are one among a large number of people who are
>taking a genuine interest in AXIS.  We can probably assume that we are
>seeing just the tip of the iceberg and that this thread is being read by a
>lot of people who for one reason or another have not seen fit to
>contribute their opinions.  We are pleased nonetheless.  Let us know you
>are listening.  A short email would do.
>  But where are the angry and passionate critics who, as insinuated in an
>early post, were going to rip us to pieces?  The AXIS hypothesis is there
>for everyone to see.  Either it is flawed or it is not.  Come on out and
>let us have *civilized* debate.  We invite you to poke holes in it.  You
>may see something we don't.

Here are my thoughts on the current thread and the AXIS network. Firstly,
I have no problems with the AXIS concepts per se and the idea of having
a system that can modify its own learning process is an interesting one. 
What I do have problems with is the lack of any real information in any 
of your posts.  OK, fine you've explained what the network is and that 
the learner does the learning and another part does conflict resolution 
and blah blah blah. But you haven't given any concrete information. How 
exactly does the learner learn?? IE what is the algorithm!! How does the
AXIS network perform on problems (real or toy I don't care just give
some results). Until you address this lack of information by providing
algorithms and results, there are going to be a lot of people who won't
take you seriously and you can hardly make the claim of having come up
with a revolutionary "Machine Learning Breakthrough" and expect people
to believe you!

Cheers,

Brendan.


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