And in person, with his verbal dexterity, rich vocabulary and soft speaking voice (soft enough to confound any interviewer's attempt to tape him), he seems more a bookish professor than a dynamic Lisztian.
"I loved the idea of a 'soft' vocabulary, and still do," he said.
He told me that wine and tea share some of the same descriptive vocabulary: "curves," "fruity," "soft," for example.
Although methods based on query expansion [15], soft quantization [16], and large vocabulary size [17] can enhance the image retrieval performance, these methods lack spatial information that provides discriminating details.
Africans, in particular, have greatly enriched the vocabulary and contributed the soft, somewhat nasal accent and rhythmic intonation that distinguish contemporary Cuban speech.
Then, mid-level features are obtained by embedding local descriptors into the visual vocabulary space using the soft-assignment coding step of the bag-of-features model.
We use the ICD-10 code segments and their frequencies to define a vocabulary, whereupon we induce the hierarchical soft-max layer in exactly the same manner as in the standard W2V algorithm.
Even this "soft" behaviourism is bound to fail, however, since mentalistic vocabulary is not analysable or translatable into behavioural statements even if these are allowed to include descriptions of actions.
It has developed its own vocabulary and identities, involving, things like compersion, polypods, soft-swaps, full-swaps, and even unicorns (bless them).
In the non-fire spaces, encourage traditional activities, such as conversation (as much as your current vocabulary will allow), arrowhead-shaving, or stick-drawing in mud or soft stones.
