Monthly Archives: June 2018

Theme One Program • Exposition 2

The previous post described the elementary data structure used to represent nodes of graphs in the Theme One program.  This post describes the specific family of graphs employed by the program. Figure 1 shows a typical example of a painted … Continue reading

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Theme One Program • Exposition 1

Theme One is a program for building and transforming a particular species of graph-theoretic data structures, forms designed to support a variety of fundamental learning and reasoning tasks. The program evolved over the course of an exploration into the integration … Continue reading

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Theme One Program • Motivation 6

Comments I made in reply to a correspondent’s questions about delimiters and tokenizing in the Learner module may be worth sharing here. As a part of my M.A. work in psychology I applied my Theme One program to samples of … Continue reading

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Memorial Day Homage to Abraham Lincoln

Two centuries, two score and two years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all people are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great cultural … Continue reading

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