Archive for 'observations'

Statistical pattern recognition

Statistical pattern recognition refers to the use of statistics to learn from examples. It means to collect observations, study and digest them in order to infer general rules or concepts that can be applied to new, unseen observations. How should this be done in an automatic way? What tools are needed? Previous discussions on prior…

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Knowledge and observations

How does knowledge grow? It may reorganize itself by which conclusions become explicit that were hidden before. Some rules are needed to make this consistent. These rules should be known as well. So next to the knowledge specific for some topic, say biology, transformation rules have to be available. Examples of such rules are arithmetic and  logic….

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