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From: myke@gatech.edu (Myke Rynolds)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets
Subject: Re: request for philosophic reactions to connectionism
Keywords: ART, Grossberg
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Date: 24 Apr 89 20:24:31 GMT
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Arun Rao writes:
>	I would not presume to pass judgement on any theory, but I dispute
>the (seemingly) widely held view that ART is a novel method of
>"learning", as it were, and of classification.

Grossberg designed ART I in '76. BAM is nothing more than a solution to
systems of linear equations, which is equivolent to least means squared,
linear programming, linear regession, matrix psuedo-inverses, on and on...
You've nothing to dispute here, its what I ment in one of my earlier messages
when I refered to the deeper simplicity of math. Its an excedingly old trick
in a new form, cognition!
-- 
Myke Rynolds
School of Information & Computer Science, Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA 30332
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