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Truth from trash : how learning makes sense /

This study of learning in autonomous agents offers a bracing intellectual adventure. Chris Thornton makes the compelling claim that learning is not a passive discovery operation but an active process involving creativity on the part of the learner. Although theorists of machine learning tell us that...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Thornton, Christopher James
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, ©2000.
©2000
Series:Complex adaptive systems.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • 1. The Machine That Could Learn Anything
  • 2. Consider Thy Neighbor
  • 3. Kepler on Mars
  • 4. The Information Chicane
  • 5. Fence-and-Fill Learning
  • 6. Turing and the Submarines
  • 7. The Relational Gulf
  • 8. The Supercharged Learner
  • 9. David Hume and the Crash of '87
  • 10. Phases of Compression
  • 11. Protorepresentational Learning
  • 12. The Creativity Continuum
  • References
  • Index.