Predicting Which Hiragana Character You’re Drawing
I tried to take a shot @ the problem shown above. Turns out just high-school level math is sufficient to make a decent classifier for this. In the Japanese alphabet(s), a character is composed of strokes. These strokes have a fixed order. This restriction is pretty much all you need. I grab the stroke’s end [...]
TIL for November 20, 2011
Emil Post actually invented a deterministic computation model. In this model, the machine operated using a FIFO queue. You would read the first symbol in the queue. Delete the appropriate number of symbols from the head Append a string corresponding to the symbol looked up in step #1.This machine has only 1 state. It is [...]