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From: reynolds@park.bu.edu (John Reynolds)
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Subject: Re: "Asynchronous" way of thinking
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Date: 23 May 91 15:56:53 GMT
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One way my thinking has changed is that I now consider the use of
discriminant functions instead of search trees for classification and
decision making.  Discriminant functions can tesselate input space in
ways that are independent of the sequential ordering of information
and they therefore allow greater generalization.  Discriminant
functions that are simple functions of input variables can be
implemented in parallel extremely efficiently.