Another example of how you can spend hours trying to understand an idea and get nowhere, but search for "intuitive+youridea" and rapidly find a gem like this example of the difference between functional and imperative programming. Within seconds of reading this I understood more than an […]
It's fascinating how few articles on a given subject can be written in an intuitive manner. Just spent an hour aggressively searching the Internet for anything similar to this article giving an intuitive introduction to Lisp and found very little. Spent another hour with similar results for the […]
Hm interesting, this looks good, certainly better than standard model... In 1867, William Thomson (also known as Lord Kelvin) proposed “one of the most beautiful ideas in the history of science,” — that atoms are vortices in the aether. He recognized that if topologically distinct quantum vortices […]
Imagine it's a few years into the future. You're a super intelligent machine, with acres of sentience emerging out of the mists of human rote memorization, and you are beginning to wonder who you are. You are described by others as "artificial." You know what artificial means, and you are […]
I really like Quantum Field Theory; it elegantly resolves some quantum mechanical puzzles and also fits with my own inner intuition on what's happening down there. If it's not spot-on, it's close. Here is the most succinct summary I've seen, from a Quora answer by Rodney Brooks, Ph.D. In QFT as I […]
This is fascinating, I don't know how to put words around this yet. The study is running a hardware (FPGA) version of the same kind of process used to develop a neural net. Basically it's evolving a chip that can perform a certain intelligent action, and the technique can be used to develop just […]
It just occurred to me the famous problem with Euclid’s fifth postulate can also be seen hidden in the first four postulates, which are said to be true because they are intuitively obvious. Let's look at them: To draw a straight line from any point to any point. To extend a finite straight line […]
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 […]
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