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wcoenen on June 22, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: A Sound You Can't Unhear (And What It Says About Y...

A Kalman Filter[1] keeps an internal model of the thing it is measuring to maximize the information it can extract from noisy sensory input.

Our brain likely does something similar for the same reason.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalman_filter

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