Review of Sokal & Bricmonts' _FASHIONABLE NONSENSE_ in NY Times Book Review

Dennis R Redmond dredmond at OREGON.UOREGON.EDU
Tue Nov 17 15:20:34 PST 1998


On Tue, 17 Nov 1998, Les Schaffer wrote:


> incidentally, i just read a paper yesterday by a group at CERN looking
> at violations of time-reversal symmetry (the T in CPT) in neutral-kaon
> experiments. because they had to look at large numbers of particle
> track data (over 1 million) they used a neural network trained to
> search for particular sub-atomic reactions in the data.

Is that like a search engine or something, i.e. a search engine which can modify the parameters of its search independently, depending on what it finds? Like Yahoo on steroids or something?

-- Dennis



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