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Brain doesn't do backpropagation

• chrisb 7y ago
  Interesting paper here on e-prop which is a biologically plausible alternative to backprop: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/738385v3 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/738385v3
• DailyHN 7y ago
  > Brain doesn't do backpropagation What makes you so sure?
  • Sommer 7y ago
    If it did I would have learned from my mistakes.
    • short_sells_poo 7y ago
      He could have overfit due to his training size being too small. Either he has to add some noise or increase his set.
    • gbrown 7y ago
      Maybe your reward function is just wonky.
    • tudorw 7y ago
      That's a gene thing, apparently :) https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/3317617/Failing-to-learn-from-mistakes-is-genetic.html https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/331761...
• cududa 7y ago
  You ever touch a hot stove/ iron/ oven as a kid? Do you still do that?