# HG changeset patch
# User rlm
# Date 1396268990 14400
# Node ID 2529c34caa1a25ba2b6fc4a702e9332c8cafb9bf
# Parent  1803144ec9aec71ef55b5bef3479a193dd43d171
changes from mom.

diff -r 1803144ec9ae -r 2529c34caa1a thesis/cortex.bib
--- a/thesis/cortex.bib	Mon Mar 31 08:21:39 2014 -0400
+++ b/thesis/cortex.bib	Mon Mar 31 08:29:50 2014 -0400
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@
                   embodiment is critical to intelligence.}}
 } 
 
-@book{9.01-textbook,
+@book{textbook901,
   author="Bear and Mark F. and Barry W. Connors and Michael A.",
   title="Neuroscience: Exploring the Brain.",
   publisher="Lippincott Williams \& Wilkins",
diff -r 1803144ec9ae -r 2529c34caa1a thesis/cortex.org
--- a/thesis/cortex.org	Mon Mar 31 08:21:39 2014 -0400
+++ b/thesis/cortex.org	Mon Mar 31 08:29:50 2014 -0400
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@
    model of your body, and aligns the model with the video. Then, you
    need a /recognizer/, which uses the aligned model to interpret the
    action. The power in this method lies in the fact that you describe
-   all actions form a body-centered viewpoint. You are less tied to
+   all actions from a body-centered viewpoint. You are less tied to
    the particulars of any visual representation of the actions. If you
    teach the system what ``running'' is, and you have a good enough
    aligner, the system will from then on be able to recognize running
@@ -296,10 +296,10 @@
    
 *** Main Results 
 
-   - After one-shot supervised training, =EMPATH= was able recognize a
-     wide variety of static poses and dynamic actions---ranging from
-     curling in a circle to wiggling with a particular frequency ---
-     with 95\% accuracy.
+   - After one-shot supervised training, =EMPATH= was able to
+     recognize a wide variety of static poses and dynamic
+     actions---ranging from curling in a circle to wiggling with a
+     particular frequency --- with 95\% accuracy.
 
    - These results were completely independent of viewing angle
      because the underlying body-centered language fundamentally is
@@ -381,7 +381,7 @@
    #+ATTR_LaTeX: :width 12cm
    [[./images/blender-worm.png]]
 
-   Here are some thing I anticipate that =CORTEX= might be used for:
+   Here are some things I anticipate that =CORTEX= might be used for:
 
    - exploring new ideas about sensory integration
    - distributed communication among swarm creatures
@@ -542,7 +542,7 @@
    Most human senses consist of many discrete sensors of various
    properties distributed along a surface at various densities. For
    skin, it is Pacinian corpuscles, Meissner's corpuscles, Merkel's
-   disks, and Ruffini's endings (\cite{9.01-textbook), which detect
+   disks, and Ruffini's endings \cite{textbook901}, which detect
    pressure and vibration of various intensities. For ears, it is the
    stereocilia distributed along the basilar membrane inside the
    cochlea; each one is sensitive to a slightly different frequency of
@@ -560,8 +560,8 @@
    each sense. 
 
    Fortunately this idea is already a well known computer graphics
-   technique called called /UV-mapping/. The three-dimensional surface
-   of a model is cut and smooshed until it fits on a two-dimensional
+   technique called /UV-mapping/. The three-dimensional surface of a
+   model is cut and smooshed until it fits on a two-dimensional
    image. You paint whatever you want on that image, and when the
    three-dimensional shape is rendered in a game the smooshing and
    cutting is reversed and the image appears on the three-dimensional
@@ -651,10 +651,9 @@
         pipeline. The engine was not built to serve any particular
         game but is instead meant to be used for any 3D game. 
 
-   I chose jMonkeyEngine3 because it because it had the most features
-   out of all the free projects I looked at, and because I could then
-   write my code in clojure, an implementation of =LISP= that runs on
-   the JVM.
+   I chose jMonkeyEngine3 because it had the most features out of all
+   the free projects I looked at, and because I could then write my
+   code in clojure, an implementation of =LISP= that runs on the JVM.
 
 ** =CORTEX= uses Blender to create creature models