Information and interpretation

– Information is more than bits
– How do data acquire meaning?

Semantics and NLP (Natural Language Processing)

– Word and meaning
– Semantic architectures
– Concept molecules

Artificial intelligence (AI)

– Corpus-based and rule-based AI
– How real is the probable?
– What requires more intelligence: playing cards or playing chess?
– What distinguishes biological intelligence from machine intelligence?

Musical scales: music and mathematics

– Why do all musical scales run to an octave?
– The overtone series is not a musical scale!
– Standing waves and resonance
– Prime numbers and musical scales

Logic

– Static and dynamic logic

Menu and overview page

You can go to the above-mentioned topics through the menu points in the header of this website or also through this overview page.

The author

My name is Hans Rudolf Straub. Information about my person can be found here.

Books

The Interpretive System, H.R. Straub, ZIM-Verlag, 2020 (English version)
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Das interpretierende System, H.R. Straub, ZIM-Verlag, 2001 (German version)
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Wie die künstliche Intelligenz zur Intelligenz kommt, H.R. Straub, ZIM-Verlag, 2021 (Only available in German)
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– Ordering the book from the publisher