Actually, for some issues the government has already adopted open standards for text documents. For instance, as far as research funding is concerned, many calls for proposal, along with the forms that must be completed, are distributed in odf format. It sure annoys our secretaries here at the university, but it is a good step at promoting open standards. If educated people who are potentially future decision makers are faced with such issues at 'training time', maybe they can make enlighted decisions at 'work time' ?
Well we moved from 'randomly thaught' to 'guided randomness'. That is a good step, any statistical method can be considered 'guided randomness'. The few things that can bring us far from randomness are prior knowledge and assumptions. Since ANN are nonlinear and nonparametric, they make few assumptions so maybe they are more randomized than other statistical methods. But of course IANABE.
There are many other methods available for machine learning than artificial neural networks. Moreover, ANN are not 'randomly thaught': the algorithms used are well defined and both mathematically and statistically sound; only thos who do not understand the math behind it actually think of it as magic...
Nope. Half the equippment I use is mine, bought with my money. The Dept. provided me with a descktop. But I use my *personal* laptop for work too because I need to be able to work outside my office (home, while on visit to colleague's, in meeting rooms, etc).
In the machine learning community, one of the most important journal is JMLR http://jmlr.csail.mit.edu/. From the beginning, this paper decided to go free, online. As a results, the time to publish were very small, and since reviewing was very strict, the paper quickly gained a high Impact Factor. Now it appears that JMLR is also published as paper volumes. I don't know about their economic model, but surely this success-story shows it is feasible to publish scientific free journals.
Furthermore, many authors (like me) do post a copy (called 'draft' for copyright reasons) of their paper on their webpages. Sometimes some googleing avoids having to pay for scientific journals...
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Actually, for some issues the government has already adopted open standards for text documents. For instance, as far as research funding is concerned, many calls for proposal, along with the forms that must be completed, are distributed in odf format. It sure annoys our secretaries here at the university, but it is a good step at promoting open standards. If educated people who are potentially future decision makers are faced with such issues at 'training time', maybe they can make enlighted decisions at 'work time' ?
Well we moved from 'randomly thaught' to 'guided randomness'. That is a good step, any statistical method can be considered 'guided randomness'. The few things that can bring us far from randomness are prior knowledge and assumptions. Since ANN are nonlinear and nonparametric, they make few assumptions so maybe they are more randomized than other statistical methods. But of course IANABE.
There are many other methods available for machine learning than artificial neural networks. Moreover, ANN are not 'randomly thaught': the algorithms used are well defined and both mathematically and statistically sound; only thos who do not understand the math behind it actually think of it as magic...
Nope. Half the equippment I use is mine, bought with my money. The Dept. provided me with a descktop. But I use my *personal* laptop for work too because I need to be able to work outside my office (home, while on visit to colleague's, in meeting rooms, etc).
In the machine learning community, one of the most important journal is JMLR http://jmlr.csail.mit.edu/. From the beginning, this paper decided to go free, online. As a results, the time to publish were very small, and since reviewing was very strict, the paper quickly gained a high Impact Factor. Now it appears that JMLR is also published as paper volumes. I don't know about their economic model, but surely this success-story shows it is feasible to publish scientific free journals.
Furthermore, many authors (like me) do post a copy (called 'draft' for copyright reasons) of their paper on their webpages. Sometimes some googleing avoids having to pay for scientific journals...