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		<title>Next&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the end, the PhD didn&#8217;t work out; to give the briefest possible explanation, my supervisor and I wanted to pull it in too-different directions. I may well return to the research I was doing in my spare time, but my thought at the moment is that I will start using this blog for general [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oolong.co.uk/ac/?p=26</link>
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		<title>Notes on readings: Topographic maps and temporal self-organisation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A lot has happened since my last post, but it&#8217;s never really felt constructive to post about here. I&#8217;m currently looking at diffusion as a mechanism for temporal memory formation.
This is a round-up of work by Principe, Euliano et al on dynamic topographic maps and temporal self-organisation.

Principe, Euliano and Garani (2002), Principles and networks for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oolong.co.uk/ac/?p=24</link>
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		<title>Back again&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Eagle-eyed readers will have noticed that contrary to what I may have suggested I was going to do in my previous &#8216;Return of the Blog&#8216; entry, I haven&#8217;t actually updated this blog in months. Due to personal circumstances, I had to take a break from academic work entirely, and I&#8217;ve hardly stopped to think about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oolong.co.uk/ac/?p=22</link>
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		<title>Reaction-Diffusion Systems for Information Processing: Why?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Several features of reaction-diffusion systems make them particularly promising candidates for computing by chemical reaction: They are capable of exhibiting varied and complex, ordered behaviour; different forms of r-d systems can sustain both stationary structures and information transmission over long distances with little loss, by means of excitation waves. Another useful property of certain r-d [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oolong.co.uk/ac/?p=13</link>
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		<title>Return of the Blog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t been keeping this blog up to date, partly because I wasn&#8217;t sure if anyone was reading it, but I&#8217;ve now decided to maintain it for my own benefit, regardless. All being well, I may even make daily updates on my progress.
What I&#8217;ve invested the most time and effort into these last few months [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oolong.co.uk/ac/?p=17</link>
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		<title>Self-Organising Feature Maps</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Self-organising feature maps are a way of making computers classify input data according to arbitrary features of that data, with little input from human beings.
Also known as Kohonen networks, the maps are created by a form of neural network. This consists of a series of input neurons, connected to an array of output neurons. Each [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oolong.co.uk/ac/?p=12</link>
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		<title>Dynamical Systems in Cognitive Science</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A round-up of some relevant papers on this subject, with an emphasis on those utilising reaction-diffusion and related systems:

Neurocomputation by Reaction Diffusion, by Ping Liang in Physical Review Letters (1995)
This is the closest I&#8217;ve found to the approach taken by Lesser et al in modelling the mind/brain, mathematically speaking. Explores seriously the computational possibilities of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oolong.co.uk/ac/?p=11</link>
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		<title>Books</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Besides the many research papers I am getting through for my research, I have several books on the go, each providing inspiration and useful background material&#8230;

Frontiers of Complexity, Peter Coveney and Roger Highfield
A fascinating, wide-ranging and accessible overview of where things stand in the science of complexity
Introduction to the Theory of Neural Computation, John A. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oolong.co.uk/ac/?p=10</link>
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		<title>&#8216;Net of Indra&#8217; Report</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A report on the work I conducted with Mike Lesser of Autism and Computing
Statement of problem
Autism has often been seen as a puzzling disorder, with those affected exhibiting a range of symptoms with no obvious connecting thread: Sensory abnormalities, obsessive tendencies, difficulties with social interactions and often problems using language. In recent decades a number [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oolong.co.uk/ac/?p=9</link>
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		<title>Reaction-Diffusion Systems</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A wide variety of reaction-diffusion systems are found in nature. A candle flame is one classic example, where evaporating wax forms an excitable medium, dynamic structures being produced through its reaction with and diffusion into the surrounding air.
Alan Turing was the first to formulate reaction-diffusion equations as such, in his 1952 landmark paper on morphogenesis [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oolong.co.uk/ac/?p=8</link>
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