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I was disagreeing with someone who wrote that we understand how neurons work and that perceptrons model them "quite well." They do not model biological neurons
by philipkglass 9y ago
I was disagreeing with someone who wrote that we understand how neurons work and that perceptrons model them "quite well." They do not model biological neurons well at all. I agree that biological fidelity is not important for building useful ANNs.
- robotresearcher 9y agoI presented (a vulgar summary of) McCulloch's hypothesis, not my own. And since I didn't use the words "quite well", you are not entitled to put them in quotes.
- yorwba 9y agophilipkglass was referring to curiousgal's comment upthread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14790965 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14790965
- robotresearcher 9y agoOK, thanks. Too late to edit. Adjust flames accordingly. Of course a perceptron is not an accurate model of a biological neuron. But as a reduction to a minimal model it's still pretty darn interesting.