They're in because they think your product is important. They're in because it's spicy to have something at risk. People will invest in your start-up simply because watching you struggle is far more entertaining than going to the symphony. Theodore W. Berger and Jim-Shih Liaw. A pair of pulses separated by a certain time interval excites a certain neuron, while a pair of pulses separated by a shorter or longer interval inhibits it.
Speaker recognition is similarly acute.
Other applications might include speaker identification, submarine monitoring, electrocardiogram analysis, and other signal recognition tasks. Pablo Funes and Jordan Pollack at Brandeis have used genetic algorithms to build bridges, tables, and cranes out of Lego bricks. The computer knows the properties of the bricks, but is otherwise only told that it must span certain distances and carry certain loads. The computer also came up with an inverted triangle design for a crane able to lift one kilogram. Mark Yim's PolyBot is a shape-changing modular robot that can roll like a tank tread or crawl like a snake.