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Saturday, April 7, 2007

How Our Brian Raeds

Question

It's Prttey fnuny how we can raed tihs einrte snetnece wtih all tehse ltters all out of palce, and we can cnotniue to keep raednig and sitll mekas snece of waht we are raeding. No mttar how mnay tmies you raed tihs oevr and oevr you can sitll mkae snece of it.
How is taht pssoible?

Answer

As long as the first and last letter of the word is in its correct position, you can position the middle letters in any order and still make sence of it. Our eyes just glance at he first and last letters of a word.

4 comments:

sgDragon said...

Our neuron cells do have some advanced "error correction" features. The brain system processes EXTREMELY fast for a huge number of iterations of updating working, which "recovers" the "smudgy words" back to the correct ones that have been stored in our brain "database" from our previous knowledge..

Unknown said...

这个解释。。。强!

sgDragon said...

这个...neuron network里面的一点基础思想吧..我觉得你如果有兴趣可以研究下写程序去simulate这个correction过程...至少correct少量几个简单的word,应该是可以做到的...

Unknown said...

恩,看上去不错的说,不过没有太大的实用性~