All research and progress boils down to Brownian Loop Soup.
Someone/something having a result showing a connection does not mean they have explored "the way" to do it.
Not even the most elegant mathematically perfect solution is guaranteed to be the best way to crack a problem, or provide a definite answer.
Meandering paths through whatever we set our minds to do and serendipity is the way of human beings for the past few hundred millennia.
the earth is round, but not really quite.
Gravity is 10 m/s*2, but not quite, it’s the same everywhere on earth, but not really.
A day is 24 hours, but not actually.
A year is 365 days, except it’s not, and the leap years correct for the disparity, but not exactly.
Light travels at c, but not across all distances, or through all mediums.
There’s no sound in space, but there is wind, and it does sort of carry vibrations in a way that roughly is what we mean by sound
Space is really really cold, but it’s not actually cold, hot/cold doesn’t measure the same way
- it’s not about lying, that’s the wrong way to say it. We explain too simply.
We lie by omission…
The point of Pratchett is to make fun of how the university humbles the students, trading their self-assurance in their knowledge for actual knowledge that is dried inside its books
this reminds me of a book "monsters and magical sticks, there's no such thing as hypnosis?".
Which to my memory seemed to suggest hypnosis, and the states of altered consciousness associated with it, as people being affected by good storytelling. (don't think this was explicitly stated as such, but it the biggest takeaway I recall)
I suspect the social persuasion take here can be interpreted in a similar way; We are telling a story in concert with the people around us, and in that exploration of a narrative we assume roles that affect our perception. Or at least our own telling of this perception, which in turn may have effect on our retelling of it (both in terms of the rationalization we're doing internally, and in how we anchor the memories of what happened)
Going by that also, the knock-on is that regardless of whether it was "real" we will live our lives after based on our recollection of it, and assume in a sense that it was "real". Meaning that the results are more or less equivalent of it being real.
As a somewhat established researcher in the field, I second Jurasky and Martin. It is peerless and what I recommend to anyone joining my team if they think their background NLP knowledge is a bit on the weak side.
And as a lot of people have mentioned in here, DFT is pretty much implicated in neural networks already because of the mathematics (especially in convolutional/correlational neural networks, which often make use of the convolution theorem (which is "just" fourier coefficient multiplication) to do the convolution)
Extending this post it seems more interesting to look more generally at the correspondence with wavelet-transforms.
>especially in convolutional/correlation neural networks, which often make use of the convolution theorem to do the convolution
Is this true? With the learned filters being so much smaller than the input imagery/signals, and with "striding" operations and different boundary conditions being wrapped into these algorithms, it doesn't seem like a natural fit.
So... this isn’t news at all, but rather can be seen as supporting what our (norwegian here) own older tales and historians wrote down around the time:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heimskringla
It’s well known we went around, even likely as far as asia (buddha statuettes were found in viking graves) and one of our kings (Harald Hårråde) was commander of the Byzantine royal Guard (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harald_Hardrada)
So... far as I see there’s no one who knows Norse history that would find this the least surprising.
Not really sure what the fuzz in the comments is about either. (Oh, and 13’th warrior was "based on" a, most likely, true event, with a, most likely, embellished narrative due to the fantastical language used back then to regale.)
The Russian Vikings (i.e. the Vikings who in the 9th century founded the original Russian state - Kievan Rus and accompanying dukedoms around - and ruled it for several centuries after that) were raiding as far as Caspian Sea and Iran and bringing the trophies - goods and slaves - for sale back as far as Scandinavia. So there were a lot of cross-continental blood/DNA mixing during those centuries (9th-12th) until Mongols came and that started another chapter.
Some years ago I watched an interesting documentary on how a bunch of viking swords that all bear the same distinctive engraving were very likely made of steel from Persia. The doc claimed that they were likely using a route along the Volga to get down to the Caspian routinely.
"Ibn Fadlan was a 10th-century Arab[1][2][a] Muslim traveler, famous for his account of his travels as a member of an embassy of the Abbasid Caliph of Baghdad to the king of the Volga Bulgars, known as his Risala ("account" or "journal").[b] His account is most notable for providing a detailed description of the Volga Vikings, including eyewitness accounts of life as part of a trade caravan and witnessing a ship burial.[4][5]"
"Initially, the Rus' appeared in Serkland in the 9th century traveling as merchants along the Volga trade route, selling furs, honey, and slaves. The first small-scale raids took place in the late 9th and early 10th century. The Rus' undertook the first large-scale expedition in 913; having arrived on 500 ships, they pillaged in the Gorgan region, in the territory of present-day Iran, and more to the west, in Gilan and Mazandaran, taking slaves and goods. On their return, the northern raiders were attacked and defeated by the Khazars in the Volga Delta, and those who escaped were killed by the local tribes on the middle Volga.
During their next expedition in 943, the Rus' captured Bardha'a, the capital of Arran, in the modern-day Republic of Azerbaijan. The Rus' stayed there for several months, killing many inhabitants of the city and amassing substantial plunder. It was only an outbreak of dysentery among the Rus' that forced them to depart with their spoils. Sviatoslav, prince of Kiev, commanded the next attack, which destroyed the Khazar state in 965. Sviatoslav's campaign established the Rus's hold on the north-south trade routes, helping to alter the demographics of the region. Raids continued through the time period with the last Scandinavian attempt to reestablish the route to the Caspian Sea taking place in 1041 by Ingvar the Far-Travelled. "
I would insists on differentiating Rus and Russia.
Rus was not the Russian state. If you want to associate it with any modern nation, then it would be Ukrainian.
But really, it was Rus.
P.S.
Just like ancient Roman state was not Italian state or Romanian state.
Fadlan's descriptions don't actually seem so fantastical & embellished to me, maybe he was that rare thing, a historian in the current meaning of the word.
Same difference back then.
(Iceland was basically expat Norwegians who held more on to the older beliefs while Norway got ravaged by christianity, and as a consequence of the priests going straight from dying rites to baptisms; the black plague.)
This reminded me;
People seem way too comfortable / in the dark when it comes to voice-cloning, which, with the added data of general speech-patterns, is likely to become a major issue wrt political/legal issues.
Conceptually, even though it currently is a market-strategy where the benefits are as you point out. In the longer term this could be argued as an uncomfortable seat of power to whoever sits on the user-data. (without bringing up too much of that issue here... might be time to generate obfuscation of voice similarly to the obfuscation of google-searching which I've seen on here earlier=)
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