Well I cannot speak highly enough of this guide into Neural Nets written for people who already understand software programming: Hacker's guide to Neural Networks. I wouldn't suggest it for people who don't program, but it's a very good example of how to target a reader like me. He starts with a […]
I'm coming at this from a number of angles; not all of them are making an appearance in this series of posts. Here's one, though: I got a few more insights in conversation yesterday with a friend who said "What? You don't know calculus? I thought by all your math posts online you knew basics […]
I've decided I need to learn what derivatives are before I can get to the heart of understanding what's happening inside the "hidden layers" of neural nets, and backpropagation is still not making sense for me. Turns out derivatives are at the heart of calculus. I avoided calculus all my […]
Here is a good example of how an idea expressed with too abstract a manner confuses me, while presenting it in a visual manner makes it easy. Here is an early point in understanding what neural nets do, which I read elsewhere several times before seeing it here in a way that makes it easy. Click on […]
I've only just started studying neural networks, so take this with a grain of salt. I'm stumbling around in the normal way of beginning complex subjects, avoiding things like unintuitive algebra and heading toward intuitive visualizations of ideas wherever possible til I get a sense of the field, […]
I'm reading Neural Networks and Deep Learning and it drifts off into Algebra a little more than my intuitive brain wants. So I google around a little more to try and understand what's happening with backpropagation, sigmoid neurons, perceptrons, and find the following video. It has a decent survey […]
I just started learning about cybernetic intelligence in a practical way, no longer consigned to reading about it as an interesting idea that flies past quickly, but now thinking more seriously about it. Got a few steps inside the gate, reading a few pages of text on my small phone browser and […]
Since it's actually an OS issue more than a DB issue, this solution works for more than just MySQL which is mentioned in the article linked below. This fix is the only one that worked for me using SQL SERVER after trying everything else. So I figured I'd put this out there for others to find: […]
Insightful article about going beneath the surface layer to understand people. Google attracts enough talent that it can afford to look beyond the obvious factors in hiring. For example: "leadership — in particular emergent leadership as opposed to traditional leadership. Traditional leadership […]
https://techxplore.com/news/2017-03-sony-patent-application-method-wirelessly.html Wirelessly charging your phone using your friend's phone? You have to hand it to Sony for bright ideas. James Milne, True Xiong and Charles McCoy are named as the inventors on a Sony patent application published […]
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/how-humans-invented-numbersand-how-numbers-reshaped-our-world-180962485/
http://highexistence.com/rethinking-mental-illness-are-we-drugging-our-prophets-and-healers/
http://www.vironika.org/wrote-eulogy-yesterday/
http://www.trueactivist.com/brazilian-government-makes-critical-decision-about-indigenous-lands/? […]
This looks fun. http://www.realfarmacy.com/healthy-marshmallow-diy/
We usually think of the pole of the switch as some kind of neutral, like the definition of the word "set" in set theory, the neutral pole at the center of a rotary switch (see below). This pole is us, interacting with analog interfaces into the great digital Cybernetic Intelligence we've […]
Everybody knows. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lin-a2lTelg
It's a bot. Stops working on Veteran's Day. Doesn't exist, just an idea. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S34cVkL6zCE
Beethoven: Piano Concerto in E Flat, Op. 73, "Emperor," with Artur Rother conducting the Berlin Reichsander Symphony Orchestra. Historic Stereo by the Music and Arts Programs of America, 1990 CD 637. by Jared Smith Listen closely to this 1944 recording of Beethoven's Fifth Piano Concerto, […]
More importantly than techie cops in this story from Wired, we need the cybernetic intelligence to be self-governing, and that requires some kind of morality engine. I know the approach in the link above is more concerned about policing the people who are developing AI, but it sparks the […]