One of the weak points of the present critics of AI is their lack of an alternative cognitive theory. In the paper the outline of such a theory is sketched, based on (one reading) of Piaget's genetic epistemology. This is used to clarify the ambiguity of the terms 'symbol' and 'representation', thereby making it possible to suggest a reconciliation of the positions of the critics and defenders ...

Most of the conventional communication systems use channel interleaving as well as hard decision decoding in their designs, which lead to discarding channel memory and soft-decision information. This simplification is usually done since the complexity of handling the memory or soft-decision information is rather high. In this work, we design two lossy joint source-channel coding (JSCC) schemes ...

A function-based linear map symbol building and rendering method using shader language Songshan Yue, Jianshun Yang, Min Chen, Guonian Lu, Axing Zhu & Yongning Wen a State Key Laboratory Cultivation Base of Geographical Environment Evolution (Jiangsu Province), Nanjing, China b Jiangsu Center for Collaborative Innovation in Geographical Information Resource Development and Application, Nanjing, ...

We give estimates for the approximation numbers of composition operators on H, in terms of some modulus of continuity. For symbols whose image is contained in a polygon, we get that these approximation numbers are dominated by e−c √ . When the symbol is continuous on the closed unit disk and has a domain touching the boundary non-tangentially at a finite number of points, with a good behavior a...