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The Cluster Variation Method: A Primer for Neuroscientists

The Cluster Variation Method: A Primer for Neuroscientists

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Single-Parameter Analytic Solution for Modeling Local Pattern Distributions The cluster variation method (CVM) offers a means for the characterization of both 1-D and 2-D local pattern distributions. The paper referenced at the end of this post provides neuroscientists and BCI researchers with a CVM tutorial that will help them to understand how the CVM statistical thermodynamics formulation can model 1-D and 2-D pattern distributions expressing structural and functional dynamics in the brain. The equilibrium distribution of local patterns, or configuration…

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The 1-D Cluster Variation Method (CVM) – Simple Application

The 1-D Cluster Variation Method (CVM) – Simple Application

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The 1-D Cluster Variation Method – Application to Text Mining and Data Mining There are three particularly good reasons for us to look at the Cluster Variation Method (CVM) as an alternative means of understanding the information in a system: The CVM captures local pattern distributions (for an equilibrium state), When the system is made up of equal numbers of units in each of two states, and the enthalpy for each state is the same (the simple unit activation energy…

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Big Data, Big Graphs, and Graph Theory: Tools and Methods

Big Data, Big Graphs, and Graph Theory: Tools and Methods

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Big Graphs Need Specialized Data Storage and Computational Methods {A Working Blogpost – Notes for research & study} Processing large-scale graph data: A guide to current technology, by Sherif Sakr (ssakr@cse.unsw.edu.au), IBM Developer Works (10 June 2013). Note: Dr. Sherif Sakr is a senior research scientist in the Software Systems Group at National ICT Australia (NICTA), Sydney, Australia. He is also a conjoint senior lecturer in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at University of New South Wales. He…

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Modeling the Future: Tools from Complex Systems

Modeling the Future: Tools from Complex Systems

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2012 and Beyond: Tools for Predicting the Next Sixty Years Is the world coming to an end on Dec. 21st, 2012, or not? Very likely, not. We’ll still wake up in the morning, in the same beds in which we went to sleep in the night before. We’ll still walk out to our cars, or get to our Metro stations, on time. And we’ll likely stop for the same “cup of joe” on the way to work. But will our…

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