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SERKET: An Architecture for Connecting Stochastic Models to Realize a Large-Scale Cognitive Model
To realize human-like robot intelligence, a large-scale cognitive
architecture is required for robots to understand the environment through a
variety of sensors with which they are equipped. In this paper, we propose a
novel framework named Serket that enables the construction of a large-scale
generative model and its inference easily by connecting sub-modules to allow
the robots to acquire various capabilities through interaction with their
environments and others. We consider that large-scale cognitive models can be
constructed by connecting smaller fundamental models hierarchically while
maintaining their programmatic independence. Moreover, connected modules are
dependent on each other, and parameters are required to be optimized as a
whole. Conventionally, the equations for parameter estimation have to be
derived and implemented depending on the models. However, it becomes harder to
derive and implement those of a larger scale model. To solve these problems, in
this paper, we propose a method for parameter estimation by communicating the
minimal parameters between various modules while maintaining their programmatic
independence. Therefore, Serket makes it easy to construct large-scale models
and estimate their parameters via the connection of modules. Experimental
results demonstrated that the model can be constructed by connecting modules,
the parameters can be optimized as a whole, and they are comparable with the
original models that we have proposed
A passive GHz frequency-division multiplexer/demultiplexer based on anisotropic magnon transport in magnetic nanosheets
The emerging field of magnonics employs spin waves and their quanta, magnons,
to implement wave-based computing on the micro- and nanoscale. Multi-frequency
magnon networks allow for parallel data processing within single logic elements
whereas this is not the case with conventional transistor-based electronic
logic. However, a lack of experimentally proven solutions to efficiently
combine and separate magnons of different frequencies has impeded the intensive
use of this concept. In this Letter, we demonstrate the experimental
realization of a spin-wave demultiplexer enabling frequency-dependent
separation of GHz signals. The device is based on two-dimensional magnon
transport in the form of spin-wave beams in unpatterned magnetic nanosheets.
The intrinsic frequency-dependence of the beam direction is exploited to
realize a passive functioning obviating an external control and additional
power consumption. This approach paves the way to magnonic multiplexing
circuits enabling simultaneous information transport and processing.Comment: 16 pages, 3 figure
Project overview and update on WEAVE: the next generation wide-field spectroscopy facility for the William Herschel Telescope
We present an overview of and status report on the WEAVE next-generation
spectroscopy facility for the William Herschel Telescope (WHT). WEAVE
principally targets optical ground-based follow up of upcoming ground-based
(LOFAR) and space-based (Gaia) surveys. WEAVE is a multi-object and multi-IFU
facility utilizing a new 2-degree prime focus field of view at the WHT, with a
buffered pick-and-place positioner system hosting 1000 multi-object (MOS)
fibres, 20 integral field units, or a single large IFU for each observation.
The fibres are fed to a single spectrograph, with a pair of 8k(spectral) x 6k
(spatial) pixel cameras, located within the WHT GHRIL enclosure on the
telescope Nasmyth platform, supporting observations at R~5000 over the full
370-1000nm wavelength range in a single exposure, or a high resolution mode
with limited coverage in each arm at R~20000. The project is now in the final
design and early procurement phase, with commissioning at the telescope
expected in 2017.Comment: 11 pages, 11 Figures, Summary of a presentation to Astronomical
Telescopes and Instrumentation 201
Paraphysical Jurisprudent Massacre Mediation
It is possible and thereby feasible to develop and implement a pragmatic methodology for a
preemptive evidentiary system of ‘Paraphysical Jurisprudence’ for mediating the occurrence of
massacres. A required comprehensive completion and formalizing of the tools of epistemology
(theory of knowledge) already exists and has been tested both ecumenically and scientifically. The
evolution of epistemology has followed the historical progression from myth and superstition to
logic and reason to empiricism and now finally to the utility of ‘transcendence’ as a tool in
knowledge acquisition. An inspiring example from popular culture is illustrated in the 2002
Hollywood film noir “Minority Report” designed by its director to present a ‘plausible future
world’ for the year 2054 wherein an elaborate ‘Precrime Unit’ is tested to prevent murder by
utilizing a trio of ‘precogs’ bathed in a ‘photonic milk’ able to presciently predetermine impending
occurrences of homicide for which the Precrime Police Unit then intervenes to prevent. Disdain
for a putative so-called scientific metaphysics by natural philosophers is deeply rooted in modern
pragmatic societies; perhaps rightly so as consistency, credibility and lack of a comprehensive
theory has been heretofore emphatically lacking. In addition to the major problem of repeatability
is the perceived distinction between domains of the physical and so-called ‘spiritual’ as mutually
exclusive. In this work a strong case is made for the rigorous viability and near term putative
implementation of a system of paraphysical jurisprudence drawing on the utility of a panoply of
concepts. The remaining question is when does feasible become practical in the face of a steady
increase in the heinous massacre of innocents
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