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Chlasta 2021

Last edited: August 8, 2025

DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.623237

One-Liner (thrice)

  1. Used features extracted by VGGish from raw acoustic audio against a SVM, Perceptron, 1NN; got \(59.1\%\) classif. accuracy for dementia
  2. Then, trained a CNN on raw wave-forms and got \(63.6\%\) accuracy
  3. Then, they fine-tuned a VGGish on the raw wave-forms and didn’t report their results and just said “we discovered that audio transfer learning with a pretrained VGGish feature extractor performs better” Gah!

Novelty

Threw the kitchen sink to process only raw acoustic input, most of it missed; wanted 0 human involvement. It seems like last method is promising.

chromatin

Last edited: August 8, 2025

Church-Turing thesis

Last edited: August 8, 2025

Anything that can be computed by a reasonable model of computation can also be computed by a turing machine.

“Everyone’s intuitive notion of algorithms is a Turing-machine”

Note that this is not a theorem: its just a scientific hypothesis because we have no formalization of the “intuitive notion”.

multi-tape machines

Consider:

would this give us something stronger? as in, we modify our transition function as simultaneously operating on all tapes

circuit

Last edited: August 8, 2025

A circuit is a new model of computation, like turing machines. circuit are defined in terms of boolean logic, with components \(\text{AND}, \text{OR}, \text{NOT}\).

Most important quirk

constituents

  • sequence of \(n\) true/false inputs \(x_1, …, x_{n}\)
  • a graph with nodes belled AND/OR/NOT combining these things pairwise boolean gates
  • a single output true/false

complexity measures of circuits

size (circuits)

number of gates—corresponds roughly to “time complexity”

depth (circuits)

length of the longest part from the output gate to inputs—roughly “parallel time complexity”

civil rights movement

Last edited: August 8, 2025

civil rights movement starting

civil rights moment was kicked off by the Rosa Parks incident, which caused the Montomery Bus Boycott.

Martin Luther King capitalized the incident to kick start civil rights movement. He employed the method of nonviolence movement.

educational integration in the civil rights movement

service integration in the civil rights movement

Lunch counter boycotts. Nashville became the first desegregated lunch counter.