We argue that the ability to find meaningful chunks in sequential input is a core cognitive ability for artificial general intelligence, and that the Voting Experts algorithm, which searches for an information theoretic signature of chunks, provides a general implementation of this ability. In support of this claim, we demonstrate that VE successfully finds chunks in a wide variety of domains, ...

Electronic whiteboards are capable of preserving and reusing writings on blackboards (or whiteboards) at classes. This means that many more people than before can see the writings. Making these writings tidy is a desired feature. This paper describes a writing tool on the electronic whiteboards. The tool uses time information to treat strokes as two levels of chunks: the character level and the...

Several studies have found learning of biconditional grammars only under intentional rule-search conditions (e.g., Johnstone & Shanks, 2001). Memorization of strings merely led to the learning of chunks. We used a musical grammar, a diatonic inversion, that is a type of biconditional grammar. Participants either were required to memorize a set of grammatical tunes (incidental learning), or were...

Writing may be an effective approach to the study of cognitive phenomena that involve the processing of chunks. This paper provides evidence for the existence of a substantial and robust temporal signal in the process of writing that reveals information about the structure of chunks in working memory. Specifically, it is demonstrated that in the writing of simple number sequences the duration o...

When using a high content of reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) in production, the RAP properties play primary role defining performance new mixture. The depend not only on composition old but also milling process. Here we performed full-scale experiment at four jobsites. At each them, three machine parameters were varied (moving speed, depth, and drum rotational speed), while everything else rem...

We consider a BitTorrent type file sharing algorithm with randomized chunk copying process. The system functions in completely distributed way without any ’Tracker’, just relying on randomness. In such case the stability becomes an issue. It may happen, say, that some chunk becomes rare. This problem can persist and cause accumulation of peers in the system, resulting in unstable system. The co...

Low-order detonations of military munitions scatter cm-sized chunks of high-explosives onto military range soils, where rainfall can dissolve and then transport the explosives to groundwater. We present 1 year of mass-loss data obtained from cm-sized chunks of the frequently used explosives TNT (2,4,6-trinitrotoluene) and Tritonal (an 80:20 mixture of TNT and aluminum flakes) exposed outdoors t...

We propose an approach to learn image representations that consist of disentangled factors of variation without exploiting any manual labeling or data domain knowledge. A factor of variation corresponds to an image attribute that can be discerned consistently across a set of images, such as the pose or color of objects. Our disentangled representation consists of a concatenation of feature chun...