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Whenever machine learning is applied to a given field of industry, defining the objective is one of the most salient questions. Just what are you trying to find out? In the biological sciences, that ...

Brains sell magazines, mathematical linguistics sells caffeine. That basically summarizes coverage of a recent study on songbirds' "artificial grammar system". More on that later. First, a summary of ...