Paper Information - Methods of agreement: inference among the EleMentals

Methods of agreement: inference among the EleMentals

EleMentals are pure and simple artificial minds that process information through interaction with one another. In this paper, some EleMentals find the optimal binary activation values for nodes in a complicated network.

James Kennedy

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