Festivals -- Afterthoughts and Observations

Religious Festivals and Influenza

Objectives Influenza outbreaks have been widely studied. However, the patterns between influenza and religious festivals remained unexplored. This study examined the patterns of influenza and Hanukkah in Israel, and that of influenza and Hajj in Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Oman and Qatar. Method Influenza surveillance data of these seven countries from 2009 to 2017 were downloaded from the Fl...

Afterthoughts on Analogical Representations1

In 1971 I wrote a paper attempting to relate some old philosophical issues about representation and reasoning to problems in Artificial Intelligence. A major theme of the paper was the importance of distinguishing “analogical” from “Fregean” representations. I still think the distinction is important, though perhaps not as important for current problems in A.I. as I used to think. In this paper...

Managing To Make It: Afterthoughts

Some Afterthoughts on Hoppeld Networks

The present paper investigates four relatively independent issues, each in one section, which complete our knowledge regarding the computational aspects of popular Hoppeld nets 9]. In Section 2, the computational equivalence of convergent asymmetric and Hoppeld nets is shown with respect to the network size. In Section 3, the convergence time of Hoppeld nets is analyzed in terms of bit represen...

Some Afterthoughts on Hopfield Networks

The present paper investigates four relatively independent issues each in one section which complete our knowledge regarding the computational aspects of popular Hop eld nets In Section the computational equivalence of convergent asymmetric and Hop eld nets is proved with respect to the network size In Section the convergence time of Hop eld nets is analyzed in terms of bit representations In S...