Moving the goal posts: a reply to Dawson and Piercey

Berkeley [Minds Machines 10 (2000) 1] described a methodology that showed the subsymbolic nature of an artificial neural network system that had been trained on a logic problem, originally described by Bechtel and Abrahamsen [Connectionism and the mind. Blackwells, Cambridge, MA, 1991]. It was also claimed in the conclusion of this paper that the evidence was suggestive that the network might, in fact, count as a symbolic system. Dawson and Piercey [Minds Machines 11 (2001) 197] took issue with this latter claim. They described some lesioning studies that they argued showed that Berkeley’s (2000) conclusions were premature. In this paper, these lesioning studies are replicated and it is shown that the effects that Dawson and Piercey rely upon for their argument are merely an artifact of a threshold function they chose to employ. When a threshold function much closer to that deployed in the original studies is used, the significant effects disappear.     

改性沥青新型磨耗层在高等级路面上的应用

从材料、适用范围、形成机理、经济分析、施工工艺五个方面，介绍了改性沥青新型磨耗层在高等级路面上的应用，并通过试验路的观察表明，改性沥青新型磨耗层具有快速排水、增加摩阻力、愈合原路面微裂缝和较强抗磨耗的功能，是处置高等级路面上常有的龟裂、网裂、脱皮、露骨、抗磨系数不足、渗水等病害较具推广价值的新型施工工艺。     

连铸机油缸成套密封件国产化

本文论述了冶金行业中连铸机油缸密封件国产化的一些技术参数，同时也介绍了洪格尔型组合密封及夹布V型圈组合密封的使用特点。     

用于钻水平井的低密度水包油乳化钻井液

针对任平1井水平钻井的特点,研制了一种低密度、高油水比的水包油乳化钻井液。考察了乳化剂、增粘剂和配制工艺对乳状液性能的影响,评定了钻井液性能,介绍了现场应用情况。该钻井液性能稳定,润滑性好,净化井眼的能力强,能满足水平段钻井的要求。     

柘树青青

柘树是中华大地上最古老的树种之一,柘木是制弓的良材,汁能染赤黄色,叶可以饲蚕,皮、茎、叶、果实均可入药.早在远古时代,柘与人民的生活就有着密切的关系.历史上,柘就被用来命名后宫,柘枝还被用作曲调、歌舞之名.     

Assessing Consequences of Substance Use: Psychometric Properties of the Inventory of Drug Use Consequences.

Negative consequences are an important component of the substance use change process, yet no standardized measure exists to assess consequences of use. This study evaluated the psychometric properties of the Inventory of Drug Use Consequences, a self-report measure assessing drinking and drug use consequences. Participants (N=252) were assessed at entry into outpatient substance abuse treatment. Items loaded strongly on 1 factor, and internal consistency of the total scale was high. Fifteen items with the highest correlations with the total scale were chosen to represent the construct. The shortened measure exhibited good internal consistency, convergent and discriminant validity, and detected change over time and may be the measure of substance use consequences that is lacking in the field. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Emergence of communication in embodied agents evolved for the ability to solve a collective navigation problem

In this paper, we present the results of an experiment in which a collection of simulated robots that have been evolved for the ability to solve a collective navigation problem develop a communication system that allows them to co-operate better. The analysis of the results obtained indicates how evolving robots develop a non-trivial communication system and exploit different communication modalities. The results also indicate how the possibility of co-adapting the robots’ individual and social/communicative behaviour plays a key role in the development of progressively more complex and effective individuals.     

国画“留白”在包装设计中的运用

"留白"是中国绘画艺术中的一个非常重要的术语,被广泛的应用在中国传统的书画创作中。"留白"是艺术达成审美交流的中介机制,它深刻的展开了艺术的创作过程与接受过程的视野融合,具有极高的设计与文化价值,是现代包装设计师在设计思维和设计手法上可供学习和借鉴的宝库。本文从国画"留白"艺术的构成方法、风格、布置等角度进行了论述。总结了其设计特点和艺术手段,以通过对国画"留白"艺术设计理念的探讨对现代包装设计给予启发与引导。     

Active symbols and internal models: Towards a cognitive connectionism

In the first section of the article, we examine some recent criticisms of the connectionist enterprise: first, that connectionist models are fundamentally behaviorist in nature (and, therefore, non-cognitive), and second that connectionist models are fundamentally associationist in nature (and, therefore, cognitively weak). We argue that, for a limited class of connectionist models (feed-forward, pattern-associator models), the first criticism is unavoidable. With respect to the second criticism, we propose that connectionist modelsare fundamentally associationist but that this is appropriate for building models of human cognition. However, we do accept the point that there are cognitive capacities for which any purely associative model cannot provide a satisfactory account. The implication that we draw from is this is not that associationist models and mechanisms should be scrapped, but rather that they should be enhanced.In the next section of the article, we identify a set of connectionist approaches which are characterized by active symbols — recurrent circuits which are the basis of knowledge representation. We claim that such approaches avoid criticisms of behaviorism and are, in principle, capable of supporting full cognition. In the final section of the article, we speculate at some length about what we believe would be the characteristics of a fully realized active symbol system. This includes both potential problems and possible solutions (for example, mechanisms needed to control activity in a complex recurrent network) as well as the promise of such systems (in particular, the emergence of knowledge structures which would constitute genuine internal models).