Lev Goldfarb

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What is the extent and the consequences of the 'Americanization' of European (and not only) higher education and research?

I'm not an expert in that field but my experience in science suggests that this influence is quite strong and not always beneficial, especially in science and advanced information processing. Here...

30 April 2014 8,302 3 View

Is there any evidence that different dendrites and/or axons in the same neuron may carry qualitatively (not quantitatively) different information?

We have proposed a theoretical model which might be interpreted as suggesting that individual dendrites and/or axons play qualitatively different roles.

04 March 2013 5,852 18 View

Is there a general physical (not mathematical) reason behind the conjugacy of a pair of variables in quantum mechanics?

In other words: Why (from the *physical* point of view) some pairs of variables---e.g. energy and time---are "conjugate"? Does the phrase "conjugate variables" creates a false impression of its...

02 December 2012 4,937 90 View

What is the main road leading to the development of AI and its various subfields (pattern recognition, data mining, information retrieval, etc.)?

I propose that the *only* way ahead is via a fundamentally new representational formalism that would clearly reveal what critical information has been missing from the conventional forms of data...

29 October 2012 517 13 View

Have you noticed the lack of serious scientific discussions on scientific internet forums (and conferences) despite the often repeated "internet opportunities"?

More accurately, I mean not the narrow technical discussions but the discussions on the general direction of the corresponding natural science. And this is particularly conspicuous given the...

25 October 2012 7,659 14 View

What is the concept of class in your favorite learning model, e.g. in SVM, ANN, etc.?

My claim is that none of the accepted concepts of class are *adequate*. Is this situation ok? Is this ok to do classification without an adequate (central) concept of class available in the model?...

10 October 2012 4,641 7 View